torekp comments on Friendly AI and the limits of computational epistemology - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 08 August 2012 01:16PM

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Comment author: torekp 11 August 2012 05:23:29PM 0 points [-]

True, but it does need to recognize it, and if it is somehow irreversibly committed to computationalism and that is a mistake, it will fail to be promote consciousness correctly.

For what it's worth, I strongly doubt Mitchell's argument for the "irreversibly committed" step. Even an AI lacking all human-like sensation and feeling might reject computationalism, I suspect, provided that it's false.