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256 Post author: HoldenKarnofsky 11 May 2012 04:31AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 May 2012 06:33:13PM 2 points [-]

A language can be Turing-complete while still being so impractical that writing a program to solve a certain problem will seldom be any easier than solving the problem yourself (exhibits A and B). In fact, I guess that a vast majority of languages in the space of all possible Turing-complete languages are like that.

(Too bad that a human's “easier” isn't the same as a superhuman AGI's “easier”.)