vallinder comments on Hard problem? Hack away at the edges. - Less Wrong

45 Post author: lukeprog 26 September 2011 10:03AM

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Comment author: nhamann 27 September 2011 12:39:47AM 1 point [-]

I agree on most of this, but would you mind explaining why you think neuroscience is "mostly useless?" My intuition is the opposite. Also agreed that pure mathematics seems useful.

Comment author: vallinder 27 September 2011 04:09:31PM 1 point [-]

I was also wondering about neuroscience. If we take a CEV approach, wouldn't neuroscience be useful for actually determining the volitions to be extrapolated?