I knew that "23 being the number" was familiar. All throughout I was thinking "This is just a poor rip off trying to imitate Hilbert's problems", and sure enoug

I knew that "23 being the number" was familiar. All throughout I was thinking "This is just a poor rip off trying to imitate Hilbert's problems", and sure enough there are 23 of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems I think I'd rather people pursue the (in my view) more clearly worded list of friendly AI problems: http://friendlyai.tumblr.com/post/11957913150/yudkowskys-singularity-summit-2011-talk http://friendlyai.tumblr.com/post/11957913150/yudkowskys-sin...