[extropy-chat] Bluff and the Darwin award

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu May 18 06:49:46 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:32:05PM -0700, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> The outside environment is not as complex as you think.  It just looks 
> that way to you because you lack the computing power to exploit its 
> regularities.

You're comparing chess with navigating reality good enough to
kick our collective bottoms? No mean feat, that.
 
> Your argument works nicely for natural selection.  Not elsewhere.

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