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Transfuturist comments on Boxing an AI? - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: tailcalled 27 March 2015 02:06PM

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Comment author: Transfuturist 28 March 2015 02:14:42AM 0 points [-]

What use is such an AI? You can't even use the behavior of its utility function to predict a real-world agent because it would have such a different ontology. Not to mention the fact that GoL boards of the complexity needed for anything interesting would be massively intractable.