ciphergoth comments on Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Prelude - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 10 January 2010 02:21:59PM 1 point [-]

Proposing a change in physics to make your utility function more intuitive seems like a serious mis-step to me.

Comment author: whpearson 10 January 2010 02:27:20PM *  1 point [-]

I'm just identifying the problem. I have no preferred solution at this point.

ETA: Altering physics is one possible solution. I'd wait on proposing a change to physics until we have a more concrete theory of intelligence and how human type systems are built. I think we can still push computers to be more like human-style systems. So I'm reserving judgement until we have those types of systems.