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TheAltar comments on Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAltar 04 March 2016 09:15:56PM 1 point [-]

I worry that a lot of discussions about AI are all being done via metaphor or being based on past events while it's easy to make up a metaphor that matches any given future scenario and it shouldn't be easily assumed that building an artificial brain is (or isn't!) anything like past events.

Comment author: James_Miller 04 March 2016 10:09:32PM 0 points [-]

I agree that using metaphors to predict the future is problematic, but predicting the future is really hard and if we don't have a good inside view of what's likely to happen the best we can do is to extrapolate from what has happened in the past.