gwern comments on Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 01 November 2010 05:13:54PM 3 points [-]

I am jumping in here from Recent Comments, so perhaps I am missing context - but how is AIXI interacting with humanity an infinite positive-sum gain for it?

It doesn't seem like AIXI could even expect zero-sum gains from humanity: we are using up a lot of what could be computronium.