Unknowns comments on New Year's Predictions Thread - Less Wrong
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In other words, one of us did not specify the prediction correctly.
I don't think it's me. I deliberately didn't say it'd destroy the world. Would it be correct to modify yours to say "..and not making the world a worse place"?
No. If you look at the original bet with Eliezer, he was betting that on those conditions, the AI would literally destroy the world. In other words, if both of us are still around, and I'm capable of claiming the money, I win the bet, even if the world is worse off.
Yup. If he lives to collect, he collects.