TheAncientGeek comments on The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine - LessWrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 28 June 2015 05:51:02PM -1 points [-]

I don't see it as dogmatism so much as a verbal confusion. The ubiquity of UFs can be defended using a broad (implicit) definition, but the conclusions typically drawn about types of AI danger and methods of AI safety relate to a narrower definition, where a Ufmks

  • Explicitly coded And/or
  • Fixed, unupdateable And/or
  • "Thick" containing detailed descriptions of goals.