skepsci comments on Hard philosophy problems to test people's intelligence? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: skepsci 16 February 2012 09:43:14AM 1 point [-]

What do you mean by "great (awful)"? Do you mean that the thought experiment itself is an awful argument against AI, but describing the argument is a good way to test how people think?

Comment author: JonathanLivengood 16 February 2012 05:52:05PM 2 points [-]

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. The argument itself is terrible. But it invites so many reasonable challenges that it is still very useful as a test of clear thinking. So, awful argument; great test case.

Comment author: skepsci 16 February 2012 10:09:18AM 1 point [-]

On a related note, I remember the day when I found out my PhD advisor (a computability theorist!) revealed that he believed the argument against AI from Gödel's incompleteness theorem. It was not reassuring.

Comment author: TimS 23 February 2012 07:55:27PM 0 points [-]

Smarter than human AI, or artificial human level general intelligence?

Comment author: skepsci 24 February 2012 09:40:27AM 0 points [-]

The latter.