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41 Post author: lukeprog 01 January 2012 07:39AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 28 December 2011 02:52:04PM 2 points [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: [deleted] 31 December 2011 07:47:11PM 4 points [-]

Has anyone emailed Judea Pearl, John Harrison, Jon Williamson, et cetera, asking them to look at this?

Comment author: lukeprog 01 January 2012 12:25:07AM 3 points [-]

I doubt it.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 January 2012 02:30:44AM *  7 points [-]

Because academics don't care about blogs? Or doing so would project the wrong image of the Singularity Institute? Or no one thought of doing it? Or someone thought of it, but there were more important things to do first? Perhaps because it's inefficient marketing? Or people who aren't already on lesswrong have failed some ratioanlity competence test? Or you're not sure it's safe to discuss?

Comment author: XiXiDu 01 January 2012 11:21:12AM 2 points [-]

Has anyone emailed Judea Pearl, John Harrison, Jon Williamson, et cetera, asking them to look at this?

Why don't you do it? I would if I could formulate those problems adequately.

Comment author: lukeprog 01 January 2012 02:55:16PM 10 points [-]

My plan has been to write up better, more precise specifications of the open problems before systematically sending them to top academics for comments.