ciphergoth comments on Muehlhauser-Wang Dialogue - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lukeprog 22 April 2012 10:40PM

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Comment author: Grognor 23 April 2012 03:49:33PM *  7 points [-]

Think about how ridiculous your comment must sound to them.

I have no reason to suspect that other people's use of the absurdity heuristic should cause me to reevaluate every argument I've ever seen.

That a de novo AGI will be nothing like a human child in terms of how to make it safe is an antiprediction in that it would take a tremendous amount of evidence to suggest otherwise, and yet Wang just assumes this without having any evidence at all. I can only conclude that the surface analogy is the entire content of the claim.

That you just assume that they must be stupid

If he were just stupid, I'd have no right to be indignant at his basic mistake. He is clearly an intelligent person.

They have probably thought about everything you know long before you and dismissed it.

You are not making any sense. Think about how ridiculous your comment must sound to me.

(I'm starting to hate that you've become a fixture here.)

Comment author: ciphergoth 28 April 2012 03:31:45PM 0 points [-]

Hadn't seen the antiprediction angle - obvious now you point it out.

I actually applauded this comment. Thank you.