engineeredaway comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: engineeredaway 27 September 2011 06:06:11PM *  6 points [-]

"What I cannot create, I do not understand."

-Richard Feynman

taken from wiki quotes which took it from Stephen Hawking's book Universe in a Nutshell which took it from Feynman's blackboard at the time of this death (1988)

its simple but it gets right at the heart of why the mountains of philosophy are the foothills of AI (as Eliezer put it) .