EphemeralNight comments on Open thread, October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: EphemeralNight 04 October 2011 06:37:58PM 6 points [-]

I'm saying that not all situations present the same amount of opportunities, and your situation makes a difference whether or not you think it does.

Okay, and that's not something I dispute. If I did somehow manage to correct my cognitive flaw, one of the possibilities is that I'd discover that I really don't have any options. But I can't know that until the flaw is solved.

I do not think there is a fully-general piece of advice for you, but you clearly believe there is.

Of course I believe there is a fully general algorithm for identifying avenues of advancement towards a terminal goal. But phrasing it like that just made me realize that anyone who actually knew it would have already built an AGI.

Well, crap.

Comment author: vi21maobk9vp 04 October 2011 09:27:50PM 2 points [-]

Well, having it described in terms suitable for human improvement and relying on existing human cognitive abilities would lower it just to universally applicable intelligence amplification.

So you did not ask for something AGI-equivalent.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 October 2011 06:43:22PM -1 points [-]

I'm glad this has been enlightening. ^^

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