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Comment author: Manfred 31 March 2015 05:21:00AM *  0 points [-]

If there is a module that specifically requires prediction of human behavior, sure. My claim in the second part of my comment is that if the model predicts the number of paperclips, it's not necessary that the closest match to things that function like human decisions will actually be a useful predictive model of human decisions.