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Comment author: wedrifid 12 October 2009 12:16:11PM *  0 points [-]

Improving the mental model is right there at the centre of the box. Creating a GAI that doesn't operate according to some sort of decision theory? That's, well, out of the box crazy talk.

Comment author: whpearson 12 October 2009 01:27:35PM *  0 points [-]

We might be having different definitions of thinking outside of the box, here.

Are you objecting to the possibility of a General intelligence not based on a decision theory at its foundation, or do you just think one would be unsafe?

Do you think us humans are based on some form of decision theory?

Comment author: wedrifid 12 October 2009 06:01:37PM 0 points [-]

Are you objecting to the possibility of a General intelligence not based on a decision theory at its foundation, or do you just think one would be unsafe?

Unsafe.

Do you think us humans are based on some form of decision theory?

No. And I wouldn't trust a fellow human with that sort of uncontrolled power.