Tim_Tyler comments on Building Something Smarter - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 November 2008 05:00PM

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 05 November 2008 07:39:11PM -1 points [-]

Could you please redirect effort away from putdowns and into finding what was wrong with the reasoning in my previous comment?

Not a "putdown". The whole idea looks like it needs major surgery to me - at least I can't see much of interest in it as it stands. Think you can reformulate it so it makes sense? Be my guest.

Tim_Tyler claims that I know everything there is to know about the output of a program that spits out the integers from 1 to 100. [snip printer running out of ink]

"Know" should not be read as "know with certainty". We don't know anything with certainty. Anyway, such a criticism cuts against the original claim as well - since that contained "know" as well as "don't know".