NihilCredo comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NihilCredo 03 August 2010 03:09:04AM *  2 points [-]

your argument deserves to get downvoted because you've made statements that are highly controversial

Did you accidentally pick the wrong adjective, or did you seriously mean that controversy is unwelcome in LW comment threads?

Comment author: ata 03 August 2010 03:18:33AM *  4 points [-]

I read the subtext as "...you've made statements that are highly controversial without attempting to support them". Suggesting that there will be plenty of time to debug, maintain, and manually improve anything that actually fits the definition of "AGI" is a very significant disagreement with some fairly standard LW conclusions, and it may certainly be stated, but not as a casual assumption or a fact; it should be accompanied by an accordingly serious attempt to justify it.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 03 August 2010 04:07:00PM 1 point [-]

No. See ata's reply which summarizes exactly what I meant.