wedrifid comments on SotW: Be Specific - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2012 06:11AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 April 2012 02:28:15PM 4 points [-]

Universe doesn't grade 'for effort'.

And that is enough non-sequiturs for one conversation. My comment in no way implied that it does, nor did it rely on it for the point was making. It even went as far as to explicitly declare likely failure.

You seem to be pattern matching from keywords to whatever retort you think counters them. This makes the flow of the conversation entirely incoherent and largely pointless.

When you are a very good engineer you can work around constraint more and more. For example, right now using the resources that the AI can conceivably command without technically innovating, improving situation with the hunger in Africa will involve drastic social change with some people getting shot. Some slightly superhuman technical innovation, and this can be done without hurting anyone. We humans are barely-able engineers and scientists; we got this technical civilization once we got just barely able to do that.

This is both true and entirely orthogonal to that which it seems intended to refute.