alt Hacker NewsIf you accept certain axioms a priori, it’s fine. If you simply let the machine intelligence take it for granted that induction works because nature is uniform and give it some way to test its predictions, it would have all the building blocks it needs to reason out a lot of very useful information. Which as the parent comment points out, people would absolutely pay a lot of money for.
If I am reading you correctly, that ends in testing, or essentially doing science.
That wouldn't satisfy the requirement to look at a claim and be able to tell if a claim was uncertainm roughly speaking.