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Manfred comments on Open Thread, Jun. 22 - Jun. 28, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 23 June 2015 05:20:27PM *  3 points [-]

There isn't really a "LW approach to AI," but there are some factors at work here. If there's one universal LW buzzword, it's "Bayesian methods," though that's not an AI design, one might call it a conceptual stance. There's also LW's focus on decision theory, which, while still not an AI design, is usually expressed as short, "model-dependent" algorithms. It would also be nice for a self-improving AI to have a human-understandable method of value learning, which leads to more focus diverted away from black-box methods.

As to whether there's some tribal conflict to be worried about here, nah, probably not.