wedrifid comments on Call for new SIAI Visiting Fellows, on a rolling basis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 December 2009 02:57:07AM 0 points [-]

Just an aside for some posters above this post who have been talking about Java as the superior choice to C++ what planet do you come from? Java is slower then C++ because of all the overheads of running the code.

A world in which a segfault in an FAI could end it.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 03 December 2009 03:05:19AM *  2 points [-]

I hope any FAI would be formally verified to a far greater extent than any existing JVM.

Comment author: timtyler 09 December 2009 03:04:06PM 0 points [-]

Formal verification is typically only used in highly safety-critical systems - and often isn't used there either. If you look at the main applications for intelligent systems, not terribly many are safety critical - and the chances of being able to do much in the way of formal verification at a high-level seems pretty minimal anyway.