Rereading the post, I don’t understand why the fellow didn’t just say “I defy your ability to build an AI” in response to your first question. Maybe he was intimidated at the moment.
Rereading the post, I don’t understand why the fellow didn’t just say “I defy your ability to build an AI”
Because he wanted the ability to retain his religious belief in the face of successful AI—and he can anticipate, in advance, exactly which experimental results he’ll need to excuse
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Rereading the post, I don’t understand why the fellow didn’t just say “I defy your ability to build an AI” in response to your first question. Maybe he was intimidated at the moment.
Because he wanted the ability to retain his religious belief in the face of successful AI—and he can anticipate, in advance, exactly which experimental results he’ll need to excuse