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Gram_Stone comments on The Thyroid Madness: Two Apparently Contradictory Studies. Proof? - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: johnlawrenceaspden 10 April 2016 08:21PM

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Comment author: Gram_Stone 11 April 2016 11:52:54AM 1 point [-]

Out of curiosity, does he mean uploading researchers?

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 12 April 2016 08:40:32PM *  2 points [-]

No, he's got some cool arguments why we can make superintelligent tools without making fully general intelligences. My preliminary feeling is that he's right. I need to think about it though, and so do we all!

Screw Fibromyalgia. I'm recovered (for now). I have lots of practice not caring about things that affect hundreds of millions, and this just goes in the 'the world is mad, everyone is wrong' bin. But seriously, I am never trusting anything medical again. Whether I'm right or wrong, what a bunch of incompetents. I wonder what it is they think they're for?

Comment author: Gram_Stone 12 April 2016 08:59:55PM 2 points [-]

If there's any way that I can read more about this, I'd be extremely interested.

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 12 April 2016 10:56:07PM 1 point [-]

Gram, he's at FHI in Oxford these days, they have a technical report (FHI TR 2015-3) by him. That's public, and I've got his permission to spread it, but I can't find a link. There's no way I can see to attach a pdf here, but if you give me your e-mail address I'm happy to send you a copy.

He also gave a talk at CSER in Cambridge which went into lots more detail, but not written up yet. The tech report looks really important on its own though.