From: Tim Freeman (tim@fungible.com)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 22:13:55 MST
> 2007/11/21, Tim Freeman <tim@fungible.com <mailto:tim@fungible.com> >:
> ...http://www.fungible.com/respect/index.html. Unfortunately the paper
> needs revision and hasn't yet made sense to someone who I didn't
> explain it to personally...
Joshua Fox wrote:
> The paper is, in fact, very clearly written...
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/double-illusion.html
The Life of Brian clip cited in Eliezer's essay there is wonderful and
deserves its own link:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqq3e03EBQ
Elizer's point is that it's entirely possible for Joshua to think he
understands me, and me to listen to Joshua's restatements of what I
said, and we each misunderstand the other while the misunderstandings
lead us to think the communication is perfect.
That's exactly how it happened when I had to explain it personally.
Based on reading the paper my reviewer thought I was implicitly having
a training phase and then a performance phase, whereas in fact I
intended the whole thing to be retrained on the entire memorized past
for every timestep because I'm hypothesizing unlimited computing
power. There were a few other misunderstandings like that too. It
left him with a model of what I was trying to say that was quite
broken and was not much helped by fixing any one misunderstanding. We
stumbled around for a while before clearing it up.
-- Tim Freeman http://www.fungible.com tim@fungible.com
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