Armok_GoB comments on AI risk, new executive summary - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 April 2014 02:29:09PM *  0 points [-]

Premise one is false assuming finite memory.

Well, maybe it's not necessarily true assuming finite memory. Do you have reason to expect it to be false in the case we're talking about?

Many new words come from pointing out a pattern in the environment, not from defining in terms of previous words.

I'm of course happy to grant that part of using a language involves developing neologisms. We do this all the time, of course, and generally we don't think of it as departing from English. Do you think it's possible to coin a neologism in a language like Q, such that the new term is in P (and inexpressible in any part of Q)? A user of this neologism would be unable to, say, taboo or explain what they mean by a term (even to themselves). How would the user distinguish their P-neologism from nonsense?

Comment author: Armok_GoB 22 April 2014 01:58:40AM 0 points [-]

I expect it to be false in at least some cases talked about because it's not 3 but 100 levels, and each one makes it 1000 times longer because complex explanations and examples are needed for almost every "word".