JulianMorrison comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2012 09:33:35PM 14 points [-]

It means nothing, although Greg Egan is quite impressed by it. Sad but true: Someone with an IQ of, say, 90 can be trained to operate a Turing machine, but will in all probability never understand matrix calculus. The belief that Turing-complete = understanding-complete is false. It just isn't stupid.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 20 April 2012 02:41:23PM -1 points [-]

It means you could, in theory, run an AI on them (slowly).