lessdazed comments on Better Disagreement - Less Wrong

70 Post author: lukeprog 24 October 2011 09:13PM

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Comment author: lessdazed 27 October 2011 10:58:19PM 1 point [-]

the version of an argument that would have been presented by a superintelligence trying to convince you of something, since that's presumably the version of the argument that best relates to the truth.

Not always, not even too often.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 October 2011 11:33:28PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps amend that to "an honest superintelligence." If you still disagree with that I'd like to hear your reasoning.

Comment author: TrE 28 October 2011 05:11:19AM 0 points [-]

The person who applies DH7 is not a superintelligence? Just a rough guess.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 October 2011 05:50:30PM 0 points [-]

Hence "in the ideal case." I'm guessing that they're referring to the idea that someone very much smarter than you could convince you of anything by simply lying very convincingly.