Mark_Friedenbach comments on Are there really no ghosts in the machine? - Less Wrong

0 Post author: kingmaker 13 April 2015 07:54PM

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Comment author: kingmaker 13 April 2015 10:44:49PM *  1 point [-]

Only a pantheist would claim that evolution is a personal being, and so it can't "try to" do anything. It is, however, a directed process, serving to favor individuals that can better further the species.

But I agree that we shouldn't rely on machine learning to find the right utility function.

How would you suggest we find the right utility function without using machine learning?

Comment author: [deleted] 14 April 2015 10:26:45PM 1 point [-]

How would you suggest we find the right utility function without using machine learning?

How would you find the right utility function using machine learning? With machine learning you have to have some way of classifying examples as good vs bad. That classifier itself is equivalent to the FAI problem.