How Hard is Intelligence? The Evolutionary Argument and Observation Selection Effects
The paper’s title is misstated. Contemporary and later sources list it as “How Hard is Artificial Intelligence? …”, not “How Hard is Intelligence? …”.
Full reasoning
The linked Nick Bostrom PDF identifies the paper as “How Hard is Artificial Intelligence? Evolutionary Arguments and Selection Effects”. A contemporaneous LessWrong link post from August 29, 2011—just weeks before this post—also gives the then-forthcoming title as “How Hard is Artificial Intelligence? The Evolutionary Argument and Observation Selection Effects.”
So while the subtitle changed between the forthcoming and published versions, the main title consistently included “Artificial”. The post’s text omits that word and therefore gives the paper’s title incorrectly.
2 sources
- How Hard is Artificial Intelligence? Evolutionary Arguments and Selection Effects
Title page: “How Hard is Artificial Intelligence? Evolutionary Arguments and Selection Effects” by Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom.
- [LINK] How Hard is Artificial Intelligence? The Evolutionary Argument and Observation Selection Effects
A contemporaneous LessWrong post from August 29, 2011 lists the paper as “How Hard is Artificial Intelligence? The Evolutionary Argument and Observation Selection Effects.”