[ExI] Whistling past the graveyard

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:40 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 1 -  If you don't understand the problem how do you know you have a
> solution?  What I think you mean is that the algorithm is more useful than
> you thought - serendipity.  I don't think this is what you mean.
>
> 2 - Or reading your sentence another way, you know the problem, you
> created an algorithm, and the answers you got you don't understand.  Then
> how do you know the solution is correct?  Maybe the algorithm is flawed -
> that is, it does things you did not intend.  (I am betting on 2)
>

### There are many problems where finding the solution is very difficult
but verifying it is trivial. Factoring a very large number might take
hundreds of years by hand but verifying that a set of numbers are factors
of that number is easy.
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>
> I know I am out of my league here, and I have no trouble giving credit to
> AI if that is due.   But the AI has to follow the programming, right?  How
> does that earn credit?
>
> ### If a bulldozer digs a hole, is it the operator's achievement, or the
bulldozer's?

If an autonomous bulldozer digs a hole, is it the manufacturer's
achievement, or the bulldozer's?

If an autonomous, superintelligent, nanotechnological, time-traveling,
faster-than-light bulldozer built by luminous, ethereal robots designed by
godlike AI designed by simpler AI designed by yet simpler AI.... invents a
way of digging holes into other universes, does Sergey Brin get the credit?

Rafał
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