JoshuaZ comments on The Design Space of Minds-In-General - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 10 January 2011 12:18:04AM 2 points [-]

If you can understand human concepts, "paperclip" is sufficient to tell you about paperclips. Google "paperclip," you get hundreds of millions of results.

"Understanding human concepts" may be hard, but understanding arbitrary concrete concepts seems harder than understanding arbitrary abstract concepts that take a long essay to write up and have only been written up by one person and use a number of other abstract concepts in this writeup.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 21 January 2011 02:31:58PM 1 point [-]

but understanding arbitrary concrete concepts seems harder than understanding arbitrary abstract concepts

Do you mean easier here?

Comment author: Will_Sawin 21 January 2011 09:04:05PM 1 point [-]

Yes.