From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 00:13:48 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Finally, even without deconstructing the rest of the parable, you can flip
> its moral lesson quite easily by assuming that the mountain *is* much larger
> than Y thinks. And historically this would appear to be the heuristic
> lesson of AI.
And as usual, I also manage to flip X and Y. But I make no excuses. It's
not a Zen thing, just a damnfool error on my part. Excuse me, I have to go
and shave my head as a penance.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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