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FAWS comments on AI is not enough - Less Wrong Discussion

-22 Post author: benjayk 07 February 2012 03:53PM

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Comment author: FAWS 07 February 2012 06:51:34PM 6 points [-]

You are assuming a concept of "algorithm" wide enough that everything an AI could do is considered an algorithm and simultaneously narrow enough that things humans do that don't seem obviously algorithmic don't count as algorithms, so you are simply begging the question. The concept of algorithm you use already implies that there are things a human can do and an AI can't right from the start.