PlaidX comments on How to get that Friendly Singularity: a minority view - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PlaidX 10 October 2009 11:51:47AM 3 points [-]

If what you say about consciousness is true, and not just a bunch of baloney, what are the actual implications of that? Does your theory make any testable predictions? What are the practical consequences for the building of an AI, or indeed for anything?

Comment author: wedrifid 10 October 2009 12:50:37PM 1 point [-]

What are the practical consequences for the building of an AI?

You have to make sure your AI's utility function isn't susceptible to Jedi mind tricks.

Not being constrained by that mundane mathematical physics stuff also opens up all sorts of new opportunities for a path to superintelligence.