wedrifid comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 31 July 2010 04:16:24AM 0 points [-]

What was the second topic? I am most interested in knowing just what things are forbidden.

Comment author: Unknowns 31 July 2010 05:22:49AM 2 points [-]

It was about the possibility of torturing someone by creating copies of the person and torturing them.

Comment author: ata 31 July 2010 04:52:27AM *  0 points [-]

If I'm thinking of the right post, it's another one that involved AI and torture, though from a very different angle than Roko's post. It was a dialogue between a human and a uFAI; I don't quite remember what points it was trying to make, but if we're talking about what could affect people with OCD/anxiety conditions, then it's probably just the "uFAI talking about torturing people" aspect that was deemed problematic anyway.

Comment author: wedrifid 31 July 2010 05:12:56AM 0 points [-]

but if we're talking about what could affect people with OCD/anxiety conditions, then it's probably just the "uFAI talking about torturing people" aspect that was deemed problematic anyway.

Ahh, I remember the one. It was titled "What do you choose? 3^^^3 people being tortured for 50 years or some E. coli in the eye?" uFAIs in counterfactuals do evil things in contrived scenarios. It's what they do.

Comment author: ata 31 July 2010 05:15:58AM *  0 points [-]

Oh, wow, I don't think I saw that one. I guess that makes three banned AI-torture posts, then?

Edit: The one I was thinking of was "Acausal torture? But a scratch, in the multiverse. (A dialogue for human and UFAI)".