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I'm saying they're modelling the problem incorrectly as a CS endeavor when it has a lot more to do with analytic philosophy.

"How do I make a program make beautiful music" is a CS problem, but only after you have some notion of aesthetics in the first place.

In the context of a universal optimizer, "how do we make this program behave reasonably without bad side effects" is maybe a CS problem, but it's predicated on "how do we codify our notion of reasonable behavior", which is analytic philosophy with probably a bit of social science thrown in.

Problem-posing is itself difficult and how a lot of philosophical breakthroughs are made. If you want rigorous problem-posing where the solution would be handy for AI, hiring a philosopher might be a good start. Very few of us are equipped to do this kind of work, certainly not here in the comments section.




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