Malcolm_Edwards comments on So You Want to Save the World - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Malcolm_Edwards 04 January 2012 06:17:50AM *  0 points [-]

It seems to me that any agent unable to solve this problem would be considerably less intelligent than a human.

Comment author: Benja 25 August 2012 06:25:44AM 1 point [-]

It does seem unlikely that an "expected utility maximizer" reasoning like this would manage to build interstellar spaceships, but that insight doesn't automatically help with building an agent that is immune to this and similar problems.