thomblake comments on Bayesian Judo - Less Wrong

71 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 July 2007 05:53AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 26 July 2010 07:56:44PM *  4 points [-]

Rereading the post, I don't understand why the fellow didn't just say "I defy your ability to build an AI" in response to your first question. Maybe he was intimidated at the moment.

Comment author: thomblake 02 May 2011 10:51:14PM 4 points [-]

Rereading the post, I don't understand why the fellow didn't just say "I defy your ability to build an AI"

Because he wanted the ability to retain his religious belief in the face of successful AI - and he can anticipate, in advance, exactly which experimental results he'll need to excuse