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Vladimir_Nesov comments on What would an ultra-intelligent machine make of the great filter? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: James_Miller 28 November 2010 06:47PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 28 November 2010 07:16:30PM 17 points [-]

You are stating "I think ultra-intelligent machine will believe X", but this simply means that you believe X, so why the talk about ultra-intelligent machines? It serves no purpose.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 28 November 2010 08:08:34PM *  6 points [-]

(It looks like LW version of the "All reasonable/rational/Scottish people believe X" dark side rhetoric is "Ultra-intelligent machines will believe X".)

Comment author: timtyler 29 November 2010 05:51:21PM -1 points [-]

(b) is counterfactual today. Nobody can calculate how many nearby star systems should have given birth to star faring civilizations - since nobody knows p(origin of life). We can't even make life from plausible inorganic materials yet. We are clueless - and thus highly uncertain.

Comment author: James_Miller 28 November 2010 07:32:17PM -2 points [-]

OK. I think that if an ultra-intelligent AI determines that (a), (b) and (c) are correct then the zoo hypothesis is probably the solution to Fermi's paradox. I think this last sentence "serves a purpose" because (a), (b) and (c) seem somewhat reasonable and thus after reading my post a reader would give a higher weight to the zoo hypothesis being true.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 November 2010 11:34:30AM -1 points [-]

So you are using the ultra-intelligent AI as a kind of Omega, then? To establish that (a), (b), and (c) are definitely true?