Cyan comments on General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 15 May 2012 10:23AM

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Comment author: Cyan 15 May 2012 05:49:02PM *  1 point [-]

All of these seem extraordinarily strong claims to make!

A critic might respond: they are strong claims to make about an arbitrarily chosen individual goal system, but asserting that there exists some goal system fulfilling the conditions is a massive disjunction, and so is weaker than it appears from the list of conditions.