Will_Sawin comments on The Blue-Minimizing Robot - Less Wrong

162 Post author: Yvain 04 July 2011 10:26PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 04 July 2011 10:01:37PM 13 points [-]

What exactly is meant by the robot having a human-level intelligence? Does it have two non-interacting programs: shoot blue and think?

Comment author: Will_Sawin 06 July 2011 12:29:44AM 5 points [-]

This seems to be the key point. Everything interesting about the whole project of human rationality is contained in the interaction between the parts of us that think and the parts of us that do. All of the theories Yvain is criticising are about, ultimately, explaining and modeling the relationship between these two entities