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

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Comment author: cousin_it 09 October 2013 11:08:36AM 0 points [-]

Yeah. That's one nice thing about Eliezer's fiction, when he writes a smart character, he actually tries to come up with smart decisions for them to make. Though I guess it's easier to have the character pull the solution out of a hat if you designed the puzzle yourself.