hairyfigment comments on Second-Order Logic: The Controversy - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 January 2013 07:51PM

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Comment author: shminux 05 January 2013 12:16:21AM 13 points [-]

I confess that I lost track of the reasoning about which-order-logic-can-do-what-and-why somewhere in the last post or so. I'm also not clear how and why it is important in understanding this "Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners". I'm wondering whether (or how) the ability to "properly talk about unbounded finite times, global connectedness, particular infinite cardinalities, or true spatial continuity" is essential or even important for (F)AI research.

Comment author: hairyfigment 05 January 2013 01:28:06AM 2 points [-]

I assume we need to ask some of these questions in order to decide if, or in what sense, an AGI needs second-order logic.