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

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Comment author: paulfchristiano 12 May 2011 05:22:53AM 0 points [-]

There are two parts to the problem: one is designing a model that describes the world well, and the other is using that model to infer things about the world from data. I agree that Bayesian is the correct adjective to apply to this process, but not necessarily that modeling the world is the most interesting part.