Are parents essentially AI researchers?
khafra: To paraphrase Eliezer(1), The design space of minds-in-general(2) is so freakin' huge that it's misleading to use human minds as analogies; in doing so you immediately fall victim to the detached lever fallacy(3).(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer(2)http://lesswrong.com/lw/rm/the_design_space_of_mindsingenera...(3) http://lesswrong.com/lw/sp/detached_lever_fallacy/