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private_messaging comments on Article about LW: Faith, Hope, and Singularity: Entering the Matrix with New York’s Futurist Set - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: malo 25 July 2012 07:28PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 28 July 2012 03:52:04PM *  0 points [-]

The "sufficiently advanced" in their argumentations means "sufficiently advanced in the direction of making my argument true" and nothing more.

If I adopt pragmatic version of "advancedness", then the software (algorithms) that are somehow magically made to* self identify with it's computing substrate, is less advanced, unless it is also friendly or something.

  • we don't know how to do that yet. edit: and some believe that it would just fall out of general smartness somehow, but i'm quite dubious about that.