Will_Newsome comments on A Rationalist's Tale - Less Wrong

82 Post author: lukeprog 28 September 2011 01:17AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 12 September 2011 02:28:08AM -1 points [-]

if I didn't think the difficulty is insurmountable and one should lose hope already.

Hm, are you implying I should perhaps just lose hope in non-insignificantly affecting direct efforts to improve decision theory? If so I'd like to make a bet.

(I parsed your comment like three different ways when I used three different inductive biases.)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 September 2011 10:24:20AM 1 point [-]

Efforts to figure out what otherworldly superintelligences are up to.