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

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Comment author: ChristianKl 20 January 2016 11:52:51AM 5 points [-]

An artificial intelligence can easily interface with other software in a way that humans can't.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 21 January 2016 06:12:19PM 0 points [-]

Yes, but many variants are also true so it's unclear what you want to imply.

  • A human can easily interface with software.
  • A human can easily interface with other humans in a way that an artificial intelligence can't.

(for some plausible meaning of 'interface' and 'can't'.

Comment author: Dagon 22 January 2016 02:58:12PM 1 point [-]

An AI can much more easily interface with software, more easily with other AIs (unless this is the singletoon foom) and likely nearly-as-easily with humans.

This does bring up the point that the post is wrong: humans aren't bad at math. We built stuff to help us and are now good at it.

Comment author: ChristianKl 21 January 2016 09:08:26PM 1 point [-]

A human can easily interface with software.

Not as easily because there no direct read and write access to neurons.