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IlyaShpitser comments on Help needed: nice AIs and presidential deaths - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 June 2015 04:47PM

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 09 June 2015 10:16:57AM *  1 point [-]

Hi Stuart,

I don't have my head wrapped around the nice/not nice AI issues you think about daily, but I am happy to help out with the graphical model if you think this will help (but honestly I don't think graphical models are a magic box for these kinds of problems, they simply help repurpose the visual part of the brain to help with algebra, they don't really generate insight for these types of problems on their own).

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 June 2015 11:40:50AM 1 point [-]

Hey there! Thanks for the offer, but I think the problem is conceptual rather than graphical. Literally, in fact - I think this problem can be solved if you have a good definition of "concept".

I'll continue thinking...

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 09 June 2015 12:01:59PM *  1 point [-]

(In case it was not obvious, I was replying to the edit, a Bayes net is a type of graphical model.)

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 June 2015 12:57:20PM 0 points [-]

Yep! I've moved beyond the Bayes net now, into "Grue" "Bleen" territory.