CCC comments on Rationality Quotes March 2014 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: malcolmocean 01 March 2014 03:34PM

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Comment author: CCC 14 March 2014 08:01:05AM 7 points [-]

I recall one Sherlock Holmes book, where Holmes said that he has a lot of trouble predicting the actions of idiots; an intelligent man, Holmes can work out what actions he would take in a given situation, but an idiot could do anything.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 March 2014 02:44:03PM 1 point [-]

Of course, this presumes that one knows the goals of said intelligent agent.