CuSithBell 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: CuSithBell 16 May 2012 07:52:11PM 2 points [-]

I agree that humans are not utility-maximizers or similar goal-oriented agents - not in the sense we can't be modeled as such things, but in the sense that these models do not compress our preferences to any great degree, which happens to be because they are greatly at odds with our underlying mechanisms for determining preference and behavior.