Morendil comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 14 June 2010 09:45:20AM 1 point [-]

Because I am not just saying it's not obvious an AI would recursively self-improve, I'm also referring to Eliezer's earlier claims that such recursive self-improvement (aka FOOM) is what we'd expect given our shared assumptions about intelligence. I'm sort-of quoting Eliezer as saying FOOM obviously falls out of these assumptions.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 June 2010 09:49:53AM 2 points [-]

I'm worried about the "sort-of quoting" part. I get nervous when people put quote marks around things that aren't actually quotations of specific claims.

Comment author: Morendil 14 June 2010 09:53:19AM 3 points [-]

Noted, and thanks for asking. I'm also somewhat over-fond of scare quotes to denote my using a term I'm not totally sure is appropriate. Still, I believe my clarification above is sufficient that there isn't any ambiguity left now as to what I meant.