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An interesting observation! An objection to it is that this approach would require your AI to have inconsistent beliefs.
Personally, I believe that fast AI systems with inconsistencies, heuristics, and habits will beat verifiably-correct logic systems in most applications; and will achieve general AI long before any pure-logic systems. (This is one reason why I'm skeptical that coming up with the right decision logic is a workable approach to FAI. I wish that Eliezer had been at Ben Goertzel's last AGI conference, just to see what he would have said to Selmer Bringsjord's presentation claiming that the only safe AI would be a logic system using a consistent logic, so that we could verify that certain undesirable statements were false in that system. The AI practitioners present found the idea not just laughable, but insulting. I said that he was telling us to turn the clock back to 1960 and try again the things that we spent decades failing at. Richard Loosemore gave a long, rude, and devastating reply to Bringsjord, who remained blissfully ignorant of the drubbing he'd just received.)
Hah! I just came across your comment, Phil :-) I was "Rude"?
Hey, you were sitting next to me, and egging me on by saying "No it isn't" quietly to yourself every time Bringsjord tried to assert his (nonsensical) claim.
But anyway. I'd claim that I was not rude, really. Bringsjord kept interrupting my attempts to ask my question with loud, almost shouted comments like "If you really think that, I feel sorry for you: you really need to go back and try to get a grasp of elementary logic before you ask me questions like this!!"
So I got a little .... testy. :-) :-)
I really wish someone had recorded that exchange.