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tegid comments on xkcd on the AI box experiment - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: FiftyTwo 21 November 2014 08:26AM

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Comment author: tegid 21 November 2014 09:32:14AM 6 points [-]

To be fair, I'd say that happens with many esoteric or unknown problems that are presented in the comic

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 21 November 2014 11:10:36AM *  7 points [-]

If you mean many esoteric or unknown problems get presented in a lighthearted way, sure.

If you mean they get presented together/associated with a second, separate, and much less worthwhile problem, and explicitely advised in the comic's hiddentext "this stuff is mockable", not so sure.

Comment author: Azathoth123 27 November 2014 03:44:29AM 1 point [-]

Yeh, that's why I stopped reading xkcd.