ciphergoth comments on Rationality Quotes March 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 March 2013 08:08:44PM 2 points [-]

It sounds like Michael Wilson's "We must program the AI in LISP, because if we don't, LISP purists will spend the next several subjective millennia arguing that it should have been done in LISP."

EDIT: Read the XKCD. It sounds like typical Strossian cynicism about how the 'Singularity' will look like a malfunctioning computer or something. Obviously not talking about the intelligence explosion.

Comment author: ciphergoth 02 March 2013 11:12:49AM 11 points [-]

Not sure I see that - this is about how non-computer people think about computers, not about the real behaviour of a real singularity.