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Comment author: lukeprog 22 December 2011 04:06:05AM 3 points [-]

Re: Playing Taboo with "Intelligence"

Jaan Tallinn said to me:

i use "given initial resources" instead of "resources used" -- since resource acquisition is an instrumental goal, the future availability of resources is a function of optimisation power...

Fair enough. I won't add this qualification to the post because it breaks the flow and I think I can clarify when this issue comes up, but I'll note the qualification here, in the comments.