timtyler comments on Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 03 March 2010 10:51:04PM *  -1 points [-]

Not at all! I have no quarrel whatsoever with any of that (except some minor quibbles about the distinction between "math" and "science").

I suspect you are not properly weighing the term "elegant" in the second quotation.

The paper is actually arguing that sufficiently comprehensive universal prediction algorithms are necessarily large and complex. Just so.