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FiftyTwo 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: FiftyTwo 07 October 2013 05:51:37AM 0 points [-]

I read it recently. I liked it overall but found the ending a bit strange/unsatisfying. Did anyone else have that experience?

Comment author: shminux 07 October 2013 06:01:30AM 4 points [-]

What's unsatisfying to me is when I can find holes in a strategy presumably concocted by a superintelligence.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 07 October 2013 07:38:03AM *  4 points [-]

I thought the obvious solution to the ending was gur gjb bs gurz jbexvat gbtrgure, fvapr gurl frrz gb or trggvat rkcbaragvny orarsvgf sebz pbbcrengvba vs gurl jbex unys gurve gvzr ba gur bguref cevbevgl vg jbhyq fgvyy or n arg tnva. Nyfb, gur onfvyvfx fglyr oenva fuhgqbja jbeq jnf pbzcyrgryl bhg bs gur oyhr ng gur raq.

Comment author: Baughn 07 October 2013 02:07:45PM *  5 points [-]

If you're going to make it a link, try doing it like this: I'm a spoiler

Comment author: Transfuturist 07 October 2013 09:02:05PM 0 points [-]

Agreed.

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