RichardKennaway comments on Failures of an embodied AIXI - LessWrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 10 June 2014 04:01:57PM 4 points [-]

Either (1) I am wrong and stupid; or (2) they are wrong and stupid.

People can all be smart and still fail to resolve a disagreement. A lot of disagreement among smart people can be seen right here on LW. Or on SSC, or OB, and I expect wherever rational people are gathered. Or consider Bayesians and Frequentists, or Pearl vs. Rubin.

Smart people don't disagree less often, they just run into more advanced things to disagree about. There's probably an Umeshism in there. If we all agree, we're not thinking about hard enough problems, maybe. Or the better the four wheel drive, the further out you get stuck.

Comment author: Cyan 10 June 2014 06:02:11PM 1 point [-]

I don't disagree with what you've written, but I don't think it applies here. The situation is very asymmetric: unlike Nate Soares and Robby Bensinger, this isn't my area of expertise -- or at least, I'm not a MIRI-affiliated researcher writing posts about it on LW. Any objection I can raise ought to have been thought of and dispensed with already. I really do think that it must be the case that either I'm being particularly obtuse and crankish, or I'm mistaken about the caliber of the work on this topic.