I remember that when I went through all of the Sequences a year ago, I was curious about the retina issue that Eliezer keeps referring to, but a cursory search didn't return anything useful. I poked around a bit more just now, and found a few short articles on the topic. Could someone point me to more in-depth information regarding the inverted retina?
The wikipedia page) on the blind spot contains a good description, as well as a diagram of vertebrate eyes alongside the eye of an octopus, which does not have the same feature.
Today's post, True Sources of Disagreement was originally published on 08 December 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Yudkowsky's guesses about what the key sticking points in the AI FOOM debate are.
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