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Bayeslisk comments on Superintelligence fiction - "Understand", by Ted Chiang - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: D_Alex 07 October 2013 03:03AM

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Comment author: Bayeslisk 07 October 2013 05:03:09AM 3 points [-]

I liked this, and it was excellent. It possibly even conveys the idea of a sufficiently intelligent entity deriving complicated and useful results from little information, implementing superior evidence-gathering and processing to win, and possibly having sapient emotions.