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Make an Extraordinary Effort

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Re: Make an Extraordinary Effort

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Post by yters » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 10:28 AM UTC

Eliezer wrote: post #23

akkartik wrote: post #17

Hey, Yudkowsky quoted from Batman!

That's nothing, three days ago I quoted Card Captor Sakura and no one called me on it.

Off topic, but, regarding your research, do you know if anyone has determined the characteristics of problems that AI has historically been most effective in solving, vs problems that humans have been best at solving?

Re: Make an Extraordinary Effort

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Post by mixmax » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 4:25 PM UTC

randomwalker wrote: post #5

I enjoyed the East vs. West discussion in the article. I grew up in the "East" (India), and even by those standards, the importance of "making a desperate all-out effort as if your own life were at stake" was drilled into my head from a pretty early age. It's one of the things I've chosen to keep, even as I've discarded most things the East gave me, like religion. When I moved to America, I realized that this notion…

I think your statement sums up exactly why people from the west should fear people from the east taking over the world.

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