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Zetetic comments on Shane Legg's Thesis: Machine Superintelligence, Opinions? - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Zetetic 08 May 2011 08:04PM

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Comment author: Zetetic 09 May 2011 06:56:30PM *  0 points [-]

it seems pretty obvious that knowledge of AIXI is the most important part of the mathematical background for work in Friendly AI.

Possibly. That was my initial reaction as well, but now I'm not so sure.

epistemology seems too important to leave to non-mathematical methods.

Agreed.