From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 22:08:20 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> Let there exist a background environment of sufficient constancy that it
> would not be a good use of computing power for a bounded rational system
> to pay attention to it. Suppose you identify a event or set of events A
> which, occurring against this background, are necessary and sufficient
> for the complete system to develop event B. In this case you can
> achieve result B by carrying out A as a subgoal.
Aaargh. That's what I get for putting sentence phrasing on autopilot.
Please delete "necessary and sufficient" and substitute "sufficient" in
the above.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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