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Given 30 seconds thought I can come up with ways to ensure that the universe is altered in the direction of my goals in the long term even if I happen to cease existing at a known time in the future. I expect an intelligence that is more advanced than I to be able to work out a way to substantially modify the future despite a 'red button' deadline. The task of making the AI respect the 'true spirit of a planned shutdown' shares many difficulties of the FAI problem itself.
You might say it's an FAI-complete problem, in the same way "building a transhuman AI you can interact with and keep boxed" is.
You think building a machine that can be stopped is the same level of difficulty as building a machine that reflects the desires of one or more humans while it is left on?
I beg to differ - stopping on schedule or on demand is one of the simplest possible problems for a machine - while doing what humans want you to do while you are switched on is much trickier.
Only the former problem needs to be solved to eliminate the spectre of a runaway superintelligence that fills the universe with its idea of utility against the wishes of its creator.
Beware simple seeming wishes.
Exactly, I like the terminology.
Well, I think I went into most of this already in my "stopping superintelligence" essay.
Stopping is one of the simplest possible desires - and you have a better chance of being able to program that in than practically anything else.
I gave several proposals to deal with the possible issues associated with stopping at an unknown point resulting in plans beyond that point still being executed by minions or sub-contractors - including scheduling shutdowns in advance, ensuring a period of quiescence before the shutdown - and not running for extended periods of time.
It does seem to be a safety precaution that could reduce the consequences of some possible flaws in an AI design.