[ExI] computer joke

[Anders Sandberg]

Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> , 4/6/2014 2:57 AM:



 On Jun 3, 2014 8:10 PM, "Anders Sandberg" <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
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 > Just checking the sign of numbers catches a surprising number of errors. 

Call it the Zodiac test.   ...or was that not the sign you meant? ;)
  
In any case it sounds like a good response to "What's your sign?"  "Positive!"
(Another great way of testing that you did your algebra right is to write an agent based model and simulate the result... I did that today to check a calculation)

Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University
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