jkaufman comments on Whole Brain Emulation: Looking At Progress On C. elgans - Less Wrong

40 Post author: jkaufman 29 October 2011 03:21PM

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Comment author: gwern 31 October 2011 06:28:10PM 3 points [-]

Bleh, I see I was again unclear about what I meant by nailing down - more precisely, how would one judge whatever has been accomplished by 2014/2020 as being 'complete' or 'functional'? Frequently there are edge cases (there's this paper reporting one group's abandoned simulation which seemed complete oh except for this wave pattern didn't show up and they had to simplify that...). But since you were good enough to write them:

  1. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/4123
  2. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/4124
Comment author: jkaufman 31 October 2011 06:40:23PM 0 points [-]

(Which paper are you referring to?)

Comment author: gwern 31 October 2011 07:24:26PM 2 points [-]

That was just a rhetorical example; I don't actually know what the edge cases will be in advance.