Swimmer963 comments on Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 10 April 2011 03:32:46AM 3 points [-]

This is a really interesting post, and it does a good job of laying out clearly what I've often, less clearly, tried to explain to people: the human brain is not a general intelligence. It has a very limited capacity to do universal computation, but it's mostly "short-cuts" optimized for a very specific set of situations...