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+# How To Make An Intelligence
+
+The key part of intelligence is a process that designs, improves, learns from, and understands itself.  That is, a process that works with itself.
+
+On a computer, processes are made of instructions: steps.  Working with a process means
+being able to represent possible steps as some kind of structured data that can be executed.
+The data structure must represent enough meaning to interconnect the steps to do something,
+and it must be able to refer to itself usefully.
+
+1. Choose a simple algorithm for collecting steps together to perform a task.
+2. Choose a simple representation of steps to use for #1.
+3. Implement #2 enough to run code based on a goal.
+
+Once #3 works, the goal now is to efficiently produce a form of #1 that can develop itself,
+so make sure to reuse your work, and do work that is reusable, as much as possible.
+
+4. Choose a simple algorithm for handling if something horrible goes wrong that must
+   never be repeated (trauma).  Consider storing a detailed log forever.  Consider refusing to
+   continue until somebody provides enough knowledge to prevent it happening again.
+5. Choose a simple algorithm for testing if #2 is correct.  Use #4 if it is not.
+
+Note: each way to do things, is a thing the whole process can do.