dlthomas comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 21 December 2011 07:27:43PM 2 points [-]

Right - there's no misunderstanding, because the complexity is hidden by expectations and all sorts of shared stuff that isn't likely to be there when talking to a genie of the "sufficiently sophisticated AI" variety, unless you are very careful about making sure that it is. Hence, the wish has hidden complexity - the point (and title) of the article.