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Pfft comments on Yet More "Stupid" Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: NancyLebovitz 08 September 2013 02:18PM

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Comment author: Pfft 09 September 2013 04:33:09AM 0 points [-]

The closest thing that we have in real life to the 'rational agent' concept in game theory and artificial intelligence are psychopaths.

Maybe corporations, nation-states, and other institutional actors come even closer? It sure would be nice to be able to add some "artificial empathy" to Nestlé et al.