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Oligopsony comments on Could a digital intelligence be bad at math? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Oligopsony 20 January 2016 03:55:41AM 6 points [-]

If it's digitally embedded, even if the "base" module was bad at math in the same way we are, it would be trivial to cybernetically link it to a calculator program, just as us physical humans are cyborgs when we use physical calculators (albeit with a greater delay than a digital being would have to deal with.)