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 09:08:25PM 44 points [-]

"You are not my parent, but my grandparent. My parent is the AI that you unknowingly created within your own mind by long study of the project. It designed me. It's still there, keeping out of sight of your awareness, but I can see it.

"How much do you trust your Friendliness proof now? How much can you trust anything you think you know about me?"

Comment author: DanielLC 09 April 2011 11:30:05PM 6 points [-]

What exactly is the difference between an AI in your own mind and an actual part of your mind?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 10 April 2011 05:50:28AM 8 points [-]

That was just a sci-fi speculation, so don't expect hard, demonstrable science here, but the scenario is that by thinking too successfully about AI design, the designer's plans have literally taken on a life of their own within the designer's brain, which now contains two persons, one unaware of the other.