timtyler comments on Back of the envelope calculations around the singularity. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 16 January 2010 12:29:02PM 0 points [-]

I.e. provable correctness.

We can already see fairly clearly how crippling a limitation that is. Ask a robot builder whether their software is "provably correct" and you will likely get laughed back into kindergarden.