Creutzer comments on Decision Theory FAQ - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Creutzer 14 March 2013 03:33:13PM *  2 points [-]

But superintelligent? Insofar as the paperclipper - or the junkie - is ignorant of the properties of alien qualia-spaces, then it/he is ignorant of a fundamental feature of the natural world - hence not superintelligent in any sense I can recognise, and arguably not even stupid.

What does (super-)intelligence have to do with knowing things that are irrelevant to one's values?

Comment author: whowhowho 14 March 2013 04:40:18PM *  0 points [-]

What does knowing everything about airline safety statistics, and nothing else, have to do with intelligence? That sort of thing is called Savant ability -- short for ''idiot savant''.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 March 2013 01:16:48PM 0 points [-]

I guess there's a link missing (possibly due to a missing <http://> in the Markdown) after the second word.

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