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Gust comments on The virtual AI within its virtual world - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 24 August 2015 04:42PM

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Comment author: Gust 25 August 2015 12:40:06AM *  2 points [-]

You mean, instead of programming an AI in a real life computer and showing it a "Game of Life" table to optimize, you could build a turing machine inside a Game of Life table, program the AI inside this machine, and let it optimize the table in which it is? Makes sense.