MichaelGR 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: MichaelGR 22 March 2009 07:16:18PM 2 points [-]

I've read it too, but made the mistake of reading it right after Godel, Escher, Bach. Hard to compare.

What surprised me most was how much of the things written in a book published in 2007 were more or less the same as those in a book published in 1979. I expected more new promising developments since then, and that was a bit of a downer.