PhilGoetz comments on Don't Revere The Bearer Of Good Info - Less Wrong

82 Post author: CarlShulman 21 March 2009 11:22PM

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Comment author: billswift 22 March 2009 12:14:13AM *  1 point [-]

Just a brief mention since we're supposed to avoid AI for a while, but it is too relevant to this post to totally ignore: I just finished J Storrs Hall's "Beyond AI", the overlap and differences with Eliezer's FAI are very interesting, and it is a very readable book.

EDIT: You all might notice I did write "overlap and differences"; I noticed the differences, but I do think they are interesting; not least because they seem similar to some of Robin's criticisms of Eliezer's FAI.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 March 2009 12:24:11AM 1 point [-]

I think I see a lot more difference between my own work and others' work than some of my readers may.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 22 March 2009 12:37:18AM *  5 points [-]

I think that's inevitable, if for no other reason that someone reading two treatments of one subject that they don't completely understand is likely to interpret them in a correlated way. They may make similar assumptions in both cases; or they may understand the one they read first, and try to interpret the one they read second in a similar way.