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IlyaShpitser comments on Course recommendations for Friendliness researchers - Less Wrong Discussion

62 Post author: Louie 09 January 2013 02:33PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 10 January 2013 09:34:07AM 5 points [-]

There's threading, deadlocks, message passing, etc.

These typically aren't used with a purely functional progamming style, are they?

On another note, if you're thinking of doing FAI research, it might be a good idea to also study relevant-seeming stuff that's not on this list in order to give yourself a different set of tools than other FAI thinkers.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 10 January 2013 06:56:51PM *  2 points [-]

Not only is threading used in purely functional languages, but one of the main points of pure functional languages is they make threading very easy.*

  • not really, but easier because no state to share.