NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread: April 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 April 2010 10:34:51AM 0 points [-]

Mass Driver's recent comment about developing the US Constitution being like the invention of a Friendly AI opens up the possibility of a mostly Friendly AI-- an AI which isn't perfectly Friendly, but which has the ability to self-correct.

Is it more possible to have an AI which never smiley-faces or paperclips or falls into errors we can't think of than to have an AI which starts to screw up, but can realize it and stops?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 April 2010 12:00:02PM 0 points [-]

It's not feasible to attempt to create a government which both perfect and self-correcting. I'm not sure if the same is true of FAI.