Nebu comments on Uncritical Supercriticality - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 December 2007 04:40PM

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Comment author: Today 12 February 2012 01:17:51AM -1 points [-]

I would say that is when there is empirical evidence supporting the claim but, try as you might, you can't find any that falsifies it.

Comment author: Nebu 12 March 2015 03:06:30PM 1 point [-]

I think having a flawed (human) agent using this technique is too susceptible to the agent convincing themselves that they tried hard enough, and so we've just pushed the problem one step back: How do you know when you've tried hard enough.