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lukeprog comments on AI Risk & Opportunity: A Timeline of Early Ideas and Arguments - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: lukeprog 31 March 2012 06:47:38PM 1 point [-]

Which new important ideas were contributed by Terminator or Eagle Eye that were not previously contributed?

Comment author: provocateur 31 March 2012 07:32:29PM *  0 points [-]

SPOILER ALERT don't read if you are yet to see Eagle Eye.

I doubt that the Terminator introduced any new important ideas. Its notability is like that of David Chalmers' recent paper, in bringing old ideas to the attention of the broader public.

Eagle Eye was spoofing its own sensors at some point. Again, not a novel idea per se, but pretty great for a movie. In the beginning of the movie, IIRC there was some Bayesian updating going on based on different sources of evidence.

Comment author: lukeprog 31 March 2012 09:33:29PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, so, those works aren't included because they didn't introduce any new important ideas I can think of.