David_Gerard comments on OpenWorm and differential technological development - Less Wrong

6 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 19 May 2014 04:47AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 21 May 2014 07:49:23AM -1 points [-]

Granted, it's a great plot device once you give it superpowers, and so there have been many high profile movies concerning such scenarios, and you see worlds destroyed by AI on the big screen. And your internal probability evaluator - evolved before CGI - uses the frequency of scenarios you seen with your own eyes.

Reversed stupidity isn't intelligence.

PM's precise point is also raised in the Sequences.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 21 May 2014 10:18:09PM -1 points [-]

Yes, and John's point is that just because it's possible to arrive at that conclusion by a wrong method doesn't actually mean it's wrong.