alt Hacker NewsAn old comic I like:
- I've taken a controversial new pill that accelerates my brain.
-- So you're smart now?
- I'm stupid faster!
That being said, being stupid faster can work if validation is cheap (and exists in the first place).
Turns out "eh close enough" for AGI is just stupidity in an "until done" loop. (Technically referred to as Ralphing.)
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teddyh • yesterday at 11:30 PM
You mean this one: <https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1567852-shen-comix>
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sanderjd • yesterday at 11:02 PM
Yep, validation is key. The smartest thing I've heard on this, which has reoriented how I think about this is that the objective function of a piece of software is now more important to get right than the implementation.
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Salgat • today at 3:41 AM
So the chimpanzees on the keyboard thing is real.
I say this usually about self-driving cars, but the phrase fits here too. "It doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be better than the average human, and humans suck at driving."