denisbider comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

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Comment author: denisbider 25 January 2010 08:08:17PM 0 points [-]

One way I imagine that would work for me is if the AI explained with sufficient persuasion that there simply isn't anything more meaningful for me to do than to play games. If there actually is something more meaningful for people to do, then the AI should probably let people do that.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 January 2010 10:05:43PM 3 points [-]

An AI could persuade you to become a kangaroo -- this is a broken criterion for decision-making.

Comment author: Jack 26 January 2010 10:20:22PM 4 points [-]

I am skeptical that rationality and exponentially greater-than-human intelligence actually confers this power.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 26 January 2010 11:24:36PM *  5 points [-]

It doesn't matter if it does or not; the fact that you can conceive of situations where persuadability would fail as a criterion immediately means it fails.

Comment author: pdf23ds 26 January 2010 11:06:53PM 3 points [-]

Well, that was the big controversy over the AI Box experiments, so no need to rehash all that here.

Comment author: Jack 26 January 2010 10:11:07PM *  1 point [-]

This is a category error. Meaningfulness is in your mind and in intersubjective constructions, not in the objective world. There is no fact of the matter for the AI to explain to you.