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RichardKennaway comments on Open Thread, May 11 - May 17, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 16 May 2015 06:02:43AM 0 points [-]

Why can any entity learn?

A more useful question to ask would be "how do entities, in fact, learn?" This avoids the trite answer, "because if they didn't, we wouldn't be asking the question".