Wei_Dai comments on Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Wei_Dai 24 November 2009 10:29PM

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Comment author: HalFinney 24 November 2009 10:54:43PM 9 points [-]

I agree about the issue of unresolved arguments. Was agreement reached and that''s why the debate stopped? No way to tell.

Particularly the epic AI-foom debate between Robin and Eliezer on OB, over whether AI or brain simulations were more likely to dominate the next century, was never clearly resolved with updated probability estimates from the two participants. In fact probability estimates were rare in general. Perhaps a step forward would be for disputants to publicize their probability estimates and update them as the conversation proceeds.

BTW sorry to see that linkrot continues to be a problem in the future.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 26 November 2009 11:28:47PM 6 points [-]

I took the liberty of a creating a wiki page about the AI-foom debate, with links to all of the posts collected in one place, in case anyone wants to refer to it in the future.