Perplexed comments on Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy - Less Wrong

106 Post author: lukeprog 20 March 2011 08:28PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 24 May 2011 05:04:08AM 0 points [-]

I didn't read the whole article. Where did Sloman claim that AI would be seen as important within a few years?

Comment author: Perplexed 24 May 2011 03:26:02PM 0 points [-]

Where did Sloman claim that AI would be seen as important within a few years?

I inferred that he would characterize it as important in that time frame from:

... within a few years, if there remain any philosophers who are not familiar with some of the main developments in artificial intelligence, it will be fair to accuse them of professional incompetence ...

together with a (perhaps unjustified) assumption that philosophers refrain from calling their colleagues "professionally incompetent" unless the stakes are important. And that they generally do what is fair.