PeterS 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: Marcello 16 July 2009 04:31:18AM 6 points [-]

Yes, we have a name from this, Religion

Agreed, but the fact that religion exists makes the prospect of similar things whose existence we are not aware of all the scarier. Imagine, for example, if there were something like a religion one of whose tenants is that you have to fool yourself into thinking that the religion doesn't exist most of the time.

Comment author: PeterS 16 July 2009 05:53:17AM *  8 points [-]

They say that everybody in the world who knows about "The Game" is playing The Game. This means that, right now, you are playing The Game. The objective of The Game is to forget about its existence and the fact that you are playing for as long as possible. Also, if you should remember, you must forget again as quickly as possible.

Comment author: Aurini 16 July 2009 08:23:43AM 6 points [-]

Given that you mentioned The Game (bastard), the most unexpected thing that the AI could possible say would be "The Game." Not the most interesting, but the most unexpected.

Well, okay, maybe something you'd never thought before would be more unexpected. But still.

Comment author: MBlume 16 July 2009 06:55:16AM 5 points [-]

bastard

Comment author: infotropism 16 July 2009 07:01:07AM 0 points [-]

What ?

Comment author: Z_M_Davis 16 July 2009 07:27:24AM *  1 point [-]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)

EDITED because Markdown (which is infuriating) won't allow parentheses in URLs, nor does subsituting ")" seem to work.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 16 July 2009 10:40:50AM *  4 points [-]