[extropy-chat] Re: Structure of AI

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Mon Nov 22 21:12:13 UTC 2004


--- Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:
>   It may not sound practically important (how many
> maxentropy universes did 
> we plan to run into, anyway?) but from a theoretical
> standpoint this is one 
> hell of a huge nitpick:  The real universe is an
> atypical special case.

It's also the only one that matters.  Any and all
efforts to deal with universes radically different
than the one we actually face are wasted.

That this type of analysis is even considered in the
SIAI's effort to build FAI leads me to conclude that
the SIAI is not worth funding, even if FAI itself
would be a desirable goal.



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