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Comment author: jsteinhardt 16 October 2012 05:11:13PM 1 point [-]

However, some of those goals are way easier than the others. Doing stuff online with lots of data is important but something that we can predictably do after investing enough resources. Probabilistic first-order logic and hierarchical representations are the parts that require lots and lots of insight, and progress on those two is far less impressive.