fubarobfusco comments on Outside View(s) and MIRI's FAI Endgame - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 29 August 2013 05:32:09AM 4 points [-]

It seems to me that we can't — in the general case — tell in advance which problems will turn out to be easier and which harder. If it had turned out that the brain wasn't the engine of reasoning, but merely a conduit for the soul, then cognitive science would be even harder than it actually is.