patrickmclaren comments on A basis for pattern-matching in logical uncertainty - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Manfred 29 August 2013 08:53AM

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Comment author: patrickmclaren 29 August 2013 03:18:51PM 0 points [-]

I'm kind of confused. Did we really mean odds or primes? If we told the robot that this statement was true for the N integers, shouldn't we have said it correctly? If we did mean primes, then could at least have been honest, and said '2, 3, 5, 7'.

Comment author: Manfred 29 August 2013 03:39:32PM 2 points [-]

Oh, whoops. I'll fix that to make it more ambiguous. :)

Anyhow, it doesn't matter what we meant - what was communicated to the robot was "a property shared by 3, 5, 7 that can be tested for in 14 characters." The robot doesn't really understand English labels.