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Comment author: RobbBB 10 September 2013 06:08:50PM 4 points [-]

It's a problem of sequence. The superintelligence will be able to solve Semantics-in-General, but at that point if it isn't already safe it will be rather late to start working on safety. Tasking the programmers to work on Semantics-in-General makes things harder if it's a more complex or roundabout way of trying to address Indirect Normativity; most of the work on understanding what English-language sentences mean can be relegated to the SI, provided we've already made it safe to make an SI at all.

Comment author: Peterdjones 11 September 2013 08:07:03AM 0 points [-]

Then solve semantics in a seed.