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

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 11 June 2012 10:15:42PM 1 point [-]

(Yeah, the argument would have been something like, given a sufficiently rich and explanatory concept of "agent", goal-driven agents might not be possible --- or more precisely, they aren't agents insofar as they're making tradeoffs in favor of local homeostatic-like improvements as opposed to traditionally-rational, complex, normatively loaded decision policies. Or something like that.)