[Skylyz]

I had never thought about how close perception and reasoning are from a computational point of view, the parts of ARC that we call "reasoning" seem to just be operations that the human brain is not predisposed to solve easily.

A very interesting corollary is that the first AGIs might be way better thinkers than humans by default because of how they can seamlessly integrate new programs into their cognition in a perfect symbiosis with computers.

[versteegen]

Perception is the representation of raw inputs into a form useful for further processing, but it is not a feed-forward computation. You repeatedly re-represent what you see as you keep looking. Particularly something like an ARC puzzle where you have to find a representation that reveals the pattern. That's what my ARC solver is about (I did not finish it for the deadline).

> A very interesting corollary is that the first AGIs might be way better thinkers than humans by default

I agree at least this far. Human System 2 cognition has some very severe limitations (especially working memory, speed, and error rate) which an AGI probably would not have. Beyond fixing those limitations, I agree with François that we shouldn't assume there aren't diminishing intelligence returns to better mental architectures.