TheOtherDave comments on Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational - Less Wrong

86 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2012 08:01AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 08 October 2012 03:06:29PM 2 points [-]

You may be correct about your own ability to understand anything that a superintelligence understands. I don't know you, and it would not be polite of me to speculate about that. But based on my own experiences, I'm rather confident that I don't have that ability. I'm also rather confident that there are tools that increase my ability to reason effectively.