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SilentCal comments on The AI in Mary's room - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: SilentCal 27 May 2016 08:17:56PM 0 points [-]

Agreed, with the addendum that human intuition has trouble fathoming the 'perfect knowledge of the other' scenario. If seeing red caused Mary to want to see more color, we'd be tempted to describe it as her 'learning' the pleasure of color, whether or not Mary's predictions about anything changed.