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HungryHobo comments on How realistic would AI-engineered chatbots be? - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: kokotajlod 11 September 2014 11:00PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 12 September 2014 11:01:14AM *  2 points [-]

As long as the experiment conforms to your expectations, they don't even need to simulate it. The only way they could get into trouble is if you expect a logical contradiction, they didn't spot it in advance, and you might eventually work that out.

Comment author: HungryHobo 12 September 2014 04:42:48PM 1 point [-]

"Oh, it turns out that was experimental error."

at least now that we have better equipment the earlier result seems not to be repeatable.

... which is a fairly common scenario.