Curiosity: Why did you mega-downvote "AI is Software" ?

AndyWood

I've never experienced anything like it before on LessWrong. Would you care to re-read the post, and offer your feedback?

I am very comfortable with everything you said. It saddens me slightly that you are not? Thank you for this feedback.

I don't think "comfort" is the useful metric here. I certainly wouldn't say I was uncomfortable with your post.

I would measure utility maybe?. I would not want to see more posts like your post. I found it wasted my time by not containing any sort of attempt (other than bald assertion) to convince me of your non-standard ideas.

That is not to say that I would not want to see more posts exploring the ideas you seem to be attempting to describe...I would possibly enjoy reading well-argued posts exploring alternative formulations to the LW-standard ideas about AI.

5shware12y

I didn't have a problem with 1 or 2 but 3 and 4 were the big problems. Though I didn't downvote because it was already well negative at that point. Saying AI is software is an assertion but its not meaningful. Are you saying software that prints 'hello world' is intelligent? From some of your previous comments I gather you are interested in how software, the user, the designer and other software interact in some way but there was none of that in the post. Its as if Eliezer had said 'rationality IS winning IS rationality' as the entirety of the sequences.