jacobt comments on Holden Karnofsky's Singularity Institute Objection 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jacobt 11 May 2012 08:14:21AM 2 points [-]

I made a similar point here. My conclusion: in theory, you can have a recursively self-improving tool without "agency", and this is possibly even easier to do than "agency". My design is definitely flawed but it's a sketch for what a recursively self-improving tool would look like.