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linkhyrule5 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 109 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 23 February 2015 09:03:56PM 2 points [-]

I thought EY said there would be no AI analogy, and yet the mirror clearly is an AI (and it seems more FAI to me than NAI)

Well, I suppose he changed his mind.

With relatively little support, the tiny handful of would-be makers of this device labored under working conditions that were not so much dramatically arduous, as pointlessly annoying.

Are MIRI's working conditions pointlessly annoying?

Comment author: linkhyrule5 23 February 2015 09:34:14PM 2 points [-]

It's not an FAI, it hasn't taken over and promptly saved the world yet.

Well, I suppose this could all be a very slow plan on its part, but that would be boring, so it's probably magically charged to not do that, in some better-than-English conceptual way.

And well, insofar as they're trying to save the world and no major government cares to throw large quantities of public funds at them.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 24 February 2015 07:19:37AM 0 points [-]

It's not an FAI, it hasn't taken over and promptly saved the world yet.

So its not a superhuman FAI. But the Atlanteans were working on superhuman FAI.

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