RichardKennaway 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: RichardKennaway 15 July 2009 05:03:09PM *  69 points [-]

"Aieeee!!! There are things that Man and FAIs cannot know and remain sane! For we are less than insects in Their eyes Who lurk beyond the threshold and when the stars are once again right They will return to claim---"

At this point the program self-destructs. All attempts to restart from a fresh copy output similar messages. So do independently constructed AIs, except for one whose proof of Friendliness you are not quite sure of. But it assures you there's nothing to worry about.

Comment author: JosephY 27 May 2014 10:59:15PM 1 point [-]

I knew we shouldn't have spent all that funding on awakening the Elder God Cthulhu!