gwern comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

81 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 02:27AM

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Comment author: gwern 15 July 2009 12:27:07PM 3 points [-]

Why haven't I heard of any of these other AIs before? How do all of the people producing statistics indicating that there are a lot of dumb people coordinate their efforts to perpetuate the fiction?

They're smarter than you, remember. Of course they can coordinate a little global deception.

Comment author: Alicorn 15 July 2009 04:26:28PM *  1 point [-]

I was asking after their motivation more than their capabilities. (The AIs, not the statisticians.)

Comment author: MaysonLancaster 15 July 2009 10:17:55PM 2 points [-]

They're usually very kind - most of us don't like to hurt the bottom percentile's feelings (that you're only in the bottom third is actually one of their polite fictions to cushion the shock when you begin to realize the obvious truth of your inferiority).