timtyler comments on A taxonomy of Oracle AIs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 10 March 2012 05:45:06PM 0 points [-]

Many ways of building a predictor result in goal-oriented predictors. However, it isn't clear that all predicors are goal-directed - even if they are powerful, can see themselves in the world, etc. The argument that they are seems insufficiently compelling - at least to me.