Re: [sl4] Is friendliness computable? (was Re: Why extrapolate?)

From: Stuart Armstrong (dragondreaming@googlemail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 26 2009 - 09:49:07 MDT


> Perhaps, then, friendliness is not computable, and we should just give up and let evolution do what it's going to do.

Newton's three body problem is not analytically solveable, yet no-one
throws satellites into orbit with a shrug and a "maybe we should just
give up and let gravity do what it's going to do".

If the problem cannot be solved exactly, we need to solve it approximately.



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