ChrisHallquist comments on How sure are you that brain emulations would be conscious? - Less Wrong

15 Post author: ChrisHallquist 26 August 2013 06:21AM

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 26 August 2013 10:57:26PM *  0 points [-]

"I hope a magic genie will solve our problems" is a kind of hope, though as I say in the OP, not one I'd want to bet on. For the record, the "maybe an FAI will solve our problems" isn't so much my thought as something I anticipated that some members of the LW community might say in response to this post.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 August 2013 11:11:06PM 3 points [-]

It's only legit if you can exhibit a computation which you are highly confident will solve the problem of consciousness, without being able to solve the problem of consciousness yourself.