Vladimir_Nesov comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 15 June 2010 07:50:21PM 1 point [-]

What khafra said - also this sounds like propelling toy cars using thermonuclear explosions. How is this analogous to FAI? You want to let the FAI genie out of the bottle (although it will likely need a good sandbox for testing ground).

Comment author: cousin_it 15 June 2010 07:53:01PM 1 point [-]

Yep, I caught that analogy as I was writing the original comment. Might be more like producing electricity from small, slow thermonuclear explosions, though :-)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 15 June 2010 08:10:13PM *  1 point [-]

Not small explosions. Spill one drop of this toxic stuff and it will eat away the universe, nowhere to hide! It's not called "intelligence explosion" for nothing.

Comment author: cousin_it 15 June 2010 08:22:53PM *  2 points [-]

That's right - I didn't offer any arguments that a containment failure would not be catastrophic. But to be fair, FAI has exactly the same requirements for an error-free hardware and software platform, otherwise it destroys the universe just as efficiently.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 15 June 2010 08:33:26PM 0 points [-]

Sure, prototypes of FAI will be similarly explosive.