wedrifid comments on A Rationalist's Tale - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 12 September 2011 06:33:38AM 1 point [-]

There are timeful/timeless issues 'cuz there's an important sense in which a superintelligence is just an instantiation of a timeless algorithm.

Not true. There are some superintelligences that could be constructed that way but that is only a small set of possible superintelligences. Others have nothing timeless about their algorithm and don't need it to be superintelligent.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 12 September 2011 06:36:37AM *  0 points [-]

That's one hypothesis, but I'd only assign like 90% to it being true in the decisions-relevant sense. Probably gets swamped by other parts of the prior, no?

Comment author: wedrifid 12 September 2011 06:54:52AM *  0 points [-]

Probably gets swamped by other parts of the prior, no?

I don't believe so. But your statement is too ambiguous to resolve to any specific meaning.