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Comment author: Nisan 13 April 2011 12:34:18AM 7 points [-]

It's pretty ridiculous that SIAI thinks it's a good idea to use Lojban to teach programs about ethics. The distinctive feature of Lojban is that it's easy to parse; but nowadays we have kinda decent natural language parsers. I used a constructed language to communicate with my class project in college, but only because I didn't want to bother with figuring out how to use an English parser, and because I knew no one but me would ever talk to it.

Comment author: Vladimir_M 13 April 2011 04:06:17AM *  6 points [-]

nowadays we have kinda decent natural language parsers.

In my opinion, these still have a long way to go. (Panel #3 is my personal favorite.)

Comment author: Will_Newsome 13 April 2011 11:42:18PM 5 points [-]

It's pretty ridiculous that SIAI thinks it's a good idea to use Lojban to teach programs about ethics.

I'd bet a fair amount of money that the Lojban thing was Ben Goertzel's idea and a lot more that nobody at SIAI who is going to actually be doing FAI research thinks this is an even remotely good idea.