Shane_Legg comments on Dreams of Friendliness - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 August 2008 01:20AM

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Comment author: Shane_Legg 03 September 2008 06:37:18PM 0 points [-]

Eli:

If it was straight Bayesian CTW then I guess not. If it employed, say, an SVM over the observed data points I guess it could approximate the effect of Newton's laws in its distribution over possible future states.

How about predicting the markets in order to acquire more resources? Jim Simons made $3 billion last year from his company that (according to him in an interview) works by using computers to find statistical patterns in financial markets. A vastly bigger machine with much more input could probably do a fair amount better, and probably find uses outside simply finance.