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hairyfigment comments on Probabilistic Löb theorem - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 April 2013 06:45PM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 28 April 2013 03:56:13PM -1 points [-]

Good for creating AGI, maybe bad for surviving it. Hopefully the knowledge will also help us predict the actions of strong self-modifying AI.

It does seem promising to this layman, since it removes the best reason I could imagine for considering that last goal impossible.