Kevin comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 06 January 2010 08:49:02PM 4 points [-]

Here the guy was talking about Friendly AI in 1942.

Not really; they're not decision theory stories. The Three Laws are adversarial injunctions that hide huge amounts of complexity under short English words like harm. It wouldn't actually work. It didn't even work in the story.

Comment author: Kevin 09 January 2010 06:06:10AM 1 point [-]

Along those lines, I'd recommend the Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. It's a short-novel length expression of an AI that gains control of all matter and energy in the universe while being constrained by Asimov's Three Laws.

It's available free online under copyright. http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/