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45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 October 2007 03:16AM

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Comment author: anonymous_poster 17 October 2007 07:09:57PM 5 points [-]

A surprising number of people I meet seem to know exactly how to build an Artificial General Intelligence, without, say, knowing how to play the guitar or juggle (much easier problems).

Comment author: danlowlite 29 October 2010 01:58:30PM 2 points [-]

Yes, but while those two topics may be interesting to me, other "easy" problems (home and car maintenance, farming) are not so much even though I recognize their importance. I'm not going to learn how to do everything basic before I am going to learn something complicated. Am I?

Is an AI?

And these problems aren't even easy, really. Like the person who knows how to make an AI, one imagines they "know" how to play guitar. There's a competence level and there is a deeper mastery/creation level. I know three chords; I am not <your favorite guitarist>.

Unless that was your point.