lessdazed comments on A History of Bayes' Theorem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 26 August 2011 07:37:57AM 2 points [-]

programming an AI to use a frequentist method without a complete understanding of its domain of applicability could be disastrous

I'm not sure what you meant by that, but as far as I can tell not explicitly using Bayesian reasoning makes AIs less functional, not unfriendly.

Comment author: endoself 26 August 2011 06:03:41PM 1 point [-]

Yes, mostly that lesser meaning of disastrous, though an AI that almost works but has a few very wrong beliefs could be unfriendly. If I misunderstood your comment and you were actually asking for an example of a frequentist method failing, one of the simplest examples is a mistaken assumption of linearity.