Will_Newsome comments on David Chalmers' "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 29 January 2011 09:19:23PM -1 points [-]

Currently expected to be difficult, since we don't know of an easy way to do so. That it'll turn out to be easy (in the hindsight) is not totally out of the question.

There are some promising lines of attack (grounded in decision theory) that might take only a few years of research. We'll see where they lead. Other open problems in FAI might start looking very solvable if we start making progress on this front.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 January 2011 09:28:16PM 2 points [-]

Show me.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 29 January 2011 09:45:15PM -1 points [-]

PM'd.