lessdazed comments on Criticisms of intelligence explosion - Less Wrong

15 Post author: lukeprog 22 November 2011 05:42PM

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Comment author: lessdazed 23 November 2011 07:40:25AM 0 points [-]

Can you add to that? Perhaps it is worth making a separate post collecting things people intuitively wouldn't think solvable by thought and only a small about of evidence that actually can be solved that way.

Comment author: gwern 23 November 2011 03:50:07PM 0 points [-]

Mm. I have an old draft of an article going through quotes from the Presocratic philosophers, explaining how they logically proceeded to Atomism, which is a pretty impressive feat. But I haven't worked on it in a long time.