Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Curve of Capability - Less Wrong

18 Post author: rwallace 04 November 2010 08:22PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 November 2010 06:07:22PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer making a comment to the effect that symbolic logic is something computers can do so it must not be what makes humans more special than chimps.

I did not say that. I said that symbolic logic probably wasn't It. You made up your own reason why, and a poor one.

Comment author: shokwave 05 November 2010 06:55:07PM 4 points [-]

Out of morbid curiosity, what is your reason for symbolic logic not being it?

Comment author: Liron 05 November 2010 11:13:16PM 4 points [-]

I second the question out of healthy curiosity.

Comment author: magfrump 05 November 2010 09:54:15PM 2 points [-]

That's fair. I apologize, I shouldn't have put words in your mouth. That was the impression I got, but it was unfounded to say it came from you.