Caspian comments on Causal Diagrams and Causal Models - Less Wrong

61 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 October 2012 09:49PM

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Comment author: Caspian 15 October 2012 12:35:52PM 0 points [-]

I had meant to suggest some sort of unintelligent feedback system. Not coincidence, but also not an intelligent optimisation, so still not an exact parallel to his thermostat.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 October 2012 03:55:59AM 0 points [-]

The thermostat was created by an intelligent human.

I never said the optimizing process had to be that intelligent, i.e., the blind-idiot-god counts.