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komponisto comments on A Fundamental Question of Group Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: komponisto 13 October 2010 09:41:49PM 1 point [-]

AI hard takeoff before 2100 might count as an example for me, although the issue is rather complex.

Also, I don't see any reason why things like quantum chromodynamics (or, for that matter, special relativity) shouldn't count, unless you're just trying to rule out a large class of predictable answers.

Comment author: steven0461 13 October 2010 09:54:53PM *  2 points [-]

Ruling out a large class of predictable answers is part of it, but it's also arguably more a case of "impressions don't point anywhere" than "impressions point the other way". If challenged on that point I'd have to think about whether I could make it more precisely, but I was kind of hoping people would intuitively agree about the spirit of the question (which is why I didn't include the second paragraph at first).