Oscar_Cunningham comments on Friendly AI ideas needed: how would you ban porn? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 17 March 2014 09:50:10PM 6 points [-]

I think a better approach, however, would be to abandon the question as stated and try to solve the problem behind it.

Note that this is the general method for dealing with confused concepts.

Comment author: Nornagest 17 March 2014 10:47:05PM 2 points [-]

Yeah. An earlier version of my post started by saying so, but I decided that the OP had been explicit enough in asking for an object-level solution that I'd be better off laying out more of the reasoning behind going meta.