JulianMorrison comments on Concrete vs Contextual values - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 03 June 2009 09:06:54AM 0 points [-]

Evolution makes trade-offs for resources. No good having a better brain you can't afford to fuel.

"Predictability" as I used the word means laws of physics that can be inferred from experience. (Versus no laws, or no usable evidence.) Other intelligences don't make the universe unpredictable.

Comment author: whpearson 03 June 2009 09:37:52AM 0 points [-]

"Predictability" as I used the word means laws of physics that can be inferred from experience. (Versus no laws, or no usable evidence.)

In order to be able to make predictions about the world it is not enough to know just the laws of physics, you have to know the current state.

It is easier to infer the state of some non-intelligences than it is intelligences.