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Stuart_Armstrong comments on Presidents, asteroids, natural categories, and reduced impact - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 06 July 2015 05:44PM

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Comment author: rikisola 08 July 2015 12:11:26PM 0 points [-]

I'm also struggling with the above. The first quote says that with event ¬X "it will NOT want to have the correct y-coordinate outputted". The second says the opposite, the robot WILL output "the y-coordinate of the laser correctly, given ¬X".

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 July 2015 12:29:43PM 0 points [-]

Slider was correct - I made a mistake. The correct sentence would have been "This motivation is sufficiently strong that it will not want to have the correct y-coordinate outputted, if the correct x-coordinate were also there), but that got too complicated, so I removed the sentence entirely.