telms comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (6th thread, July 2013) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: telms 07 August 2013 04:58:29AM 1 point [-]

You make some good points. Please forgive me if I am more pessimistic than you are about the likelihood of AGI in our lifetimes, though. These are hard problems, which decompose into hard problems, which decompose into hard problems -- it's hard problems all the way down, I think. The good news is, there's plenty of work to be done.