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Borealid • today at 12:11 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Denying the premise, which is that an intelligent being is one who can predict the outcome of actions with sufficient precision to influence the future, makes debate pointless.


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Paracompact • today at 12:44 PM

I literally granted you that premise:

> even having perfect prediction (which I contest with (1)) does not entail perfect control, just by continually computing the effect of, and refining, your X.