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

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Comment author: hairyfigment 22 January 2016 06:21:24PM 0 points [-]

To spell this out: if someone makes an AGI with poor arithmetical ability, and doesn't keep their research secret, someone else can just write a version without that flaw. (They might not even need to add a fundamentally different routine.) And that's if the AI itself has severely limited self-modifying ability.