nyan_sandwich comments on Tiling Agents for Self-Modifying AI (OPFAI #2) - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 June 2013 08:24PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 June 2013 08:15:27PM 2 points [-]

I need to inquire after your domain knowledge at this point. What is your level of mathematical literacy and do you have any previous acquaintance with AI problems?

Quick Googling suggest someone named "Jonah Sinick" is a mathematician in number theory. It appears to be the same person.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 June 2013 08:19:28PM 1 point [-]

I really wish Jonah had mentioned that some number of comments ago, there's a lot of arguments I don't even try to use unless I know I'm talking to a mathematical literati.

Comment author: jklsemicolon 06 June 2013 08:45:22PM *  1 point [-]

It's mentioned explicitly at the beginning of his post Mathematicians and the Prevention of Recessions, strongly implied in The Paucity of Elites Online, and the website listed under his username and karma score is http://www.mathisbeauty.org.