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

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Comment author: timtyler 30 January 2011 08:27:33PM *  0 points [-]

If you actually research this it quickly becomes clear that real world intelligences make decisions using much more complexity than a simple utility-maximizing algorithm.

I occasionally point out that you can model any computable behaviour using a utility-maximizing algorithm, provided you are allowed to use a partially-recursive utility function.