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Will_Newsome comments on Journal of Consciousness Studies issue on the Singularity - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: lukeprog 02 March 2012 03:56PM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 03 March 2012 08:57:31AM 6 points [-]

I guess it's not a natural kind, it just had a few things I like all jammed together compactly:

  • Decompartmentalizes knowledge between domains, in this case between AIXI AI programmers and human AI programmers.
  • Talks about creation qua creation rather than creation as some implicit kind of self-modification.
  • Uses common sense to carve up the questionspace naturally in a way that suggests lines of investigation.