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Cyan comments on Friendly AI and the limits of computational epistemology - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 08 August 2012 01:16PM

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Comment author: Cyan 09 August 2012 04:15:17AM 15 points [-]

Upvoted for the accurate and concise summary of the big picture according to SI.

There are qualities which are part of reality - we know this because they are part of experience, and experience is part of reality - but which are not part of our physical description of reality.

This continues to strike me as a category error akin to thinking that our knowledge of integrated circuit design is incomplete because we can't use it to account for Java classes.