Comment on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:49:02 GMT

An AI in a simulated world isn't prohibited from improving itself.

More to the point, I didn't imagine I would save the world by writing one comment on LW :-) My idea of progress is solving small problems conclusively. Eliezer has spent a lot of effort convincing everybody here that AI containment is not just useless - it's impossible. (Hence the AI-box experiments, the arguments against oracle AIs, etc.) If we update to thinking it's possible after all, I think that would be enough progress for the day.

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