timtyler comments on Less Wrong Should Confront Wrongness Wherever it Appears - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 23 September 2010 08:19:29PM *  0 points [-]

One problem that springs to mind is the origin of life. There's mountains of evidence relating to this topic - and I expect a rational agent could figure out many of the important details if given the existing public evidence. I expect LessWrong would do badly on this topic - due to lack of knowledge.

Another topic is how - in practice - to implement an oracle - a.k.a. a resource-limited Solomonov induction agent. That plays to LessWrong strengths - and is based on a "neat" pure maths problem.