timtyler comments on Muehlhauser-Goertzel Dialogue, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 06 May 2012 01:35:12AM 2 points [-]

If you want to try to make an intuition pump argument-from-incredulity - 'oh surely an AI or superintelligence would get bored!' - please pick something else, because pi is a horrible example.

FWIW, I don't think that's what Ben was doing. It seems more like a straw-man characterisation.

Comment author: gwern 06 May 2012 09:01:06PM 3 points [-]

I agree it's a strawman, but I think that's exactly what Ben is doing because that is what he wrote.

Comment author: timtyler 07 May 2012 09:33:04AM *  0 points [-]

Well, not the actual bit inside quotation marks. That was made up - and not a real quotation. He didn't mention boredom either.

Comment author: gwern 07 May 2012 04:51:36PM 0 points [-]

It's not a real quotation? I seem to see it in Bostrom's paper...

Comment author: timtyler 07 May 2012 10:46:36PM 0 points [-]

What - this one? Which quotation did you think I was talking about?

Comment author: gwern 07 May 2012 11:37:39PM 3 points [-]

Alright, I have no idea what you've been talking about in any of your replies and as far as I can tell, at no point have I been unclear or mischaracterized Goertzel or Bostrom, so I'm bowing out.

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