One problem that springs to mind is the origin of life. There’s mountains of evidence relating to this topic—and I expect a rational agent could figure out many of the important details if given the existing public evidence. I expect LessWrong would do badly on this topic—due to lack of knowledge.
Another topic is how—in practice—to implement an oracle—a.k.a. a resource-limited Solomonov induction agent. That plays to LessWrong strengths—and is based on a “neat” pure maths problem.
One problem that springs to mind is the origin of life. There’s mountains of evidence relating to this topic—and I expect a rational agent could figure out many of the important details if given the existing public evidence. I expect LessWrong would do badly on this topic—due to lack of knowledge.
Another topic is how—in practice—to implement an oracle—a.k.a. a resource-limited Solomonov induction agent. That plays to LessWrong strengths—and is based on a “neat” pure maths problem.