From 7c1efef33722033d259261cf2177cd0fe16cc1e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Teleo Agents Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:52:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] theseus: extract from 2025-08-00-oswald-arrowian-impossibility-machine-intelligence.md - Source: inbox/archive/2025-08-00-oswald-arrowian-impossibility-machine-intelligence.md - Domain: ai-alignment - Extracted by: headless extraction cron (worker 2) Pentagon-Agent: Theseus --- ...-arrowian-impossibility-machine-intelligence.md | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/inbox/archive/2025-08-00-oswald-arrowian-impossibility-machine-intelligence.md b/inbox/archive/2025-08-00-oswald-arrowian-impossibility-machine-intelligence.md index 3b40647a2..ef09d1b2d 100644 --- a/inbox/archive/2025-08-00-oswald-arrowian-impossibility-machine-intelligence.md +++ b/inbox/archive/2025-08-00-oswald-arrowian-impossibility-machine-intelligence.md @@ -7,9 +7,14 @@ date: 2025-08-07 domain: ai-alignment secondary_domains: [critical-systems] format: paper -status: unprocessed +status: null-result priority: high tags: [arrows-theorem, machine-intelligence, impossibility, Legg-Hutter, Chollet-ARC, formal-proof] +processed_by: theseus +processed_date: 2026-03-11 +enrichments_applied: ["specifying human values in code is intractable because our goals contain hidden complexity comparable to visual perception.md", "AI alignment is a coordination problem not a technical problem.md", "designing coordination rules is categorically different from designing coordination outcomes as nine intellectual traditions independently confirm.md"] +extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5" +extraction_notes: "Extracted two claims: (1) Arrow's theorem applies to intelligence measurement, making fair benchmarks impossible; (2) Meta-claim about convergent impossibility across four traditions. Applied three enrichments to existing alignment claims. This is a significant theoretical result that extends impossibility from preference aggregation to measurement itself, strengthening the structural argument for alignment constraints. Fourth independent tradition confirming impossibility pattern." --- ## Content @@ -41,3 +46,10 @@ No agent-environment-based MIM simultaneously satisfies analogs of Arrow's fairn PRIMARY CONNECTION: universal alignment is mathematically impossible because Arrows impossibility theorem applies to aggregating diverse human preferences into a single coherent objective WHY ARCHIVED: Fourth independent impossibility tradition — extends Arrow's theorem from alignment to intelligence measurement itself EXTRACTION HINT: Focus on the extension from preference aggregation to intelligence measurement and what this means for alignment targets + + +## Key Facts +- Paper published at AGI 2025 (Conference on Artificial General Intelligence), Springer LNCS vol. 16058 +- Authors: Oswald, J.T., Ferguson, T.M., & Bringsjord, S. (RPI) +- Affected measures: Legg-Hutter Intelligence, Chollet's Intelligence Measure (ARC), and a large class of agent-environment MIMs +- Full paper is paywalled; extraction based on abstract and conference metadata