As you get closer to the core of friendliness, you get all sorts of weird AGI's that want to do something that twistedly resembles something good, but is somehow missing something or is somehow altered so that the end result is not at all what you wanted.
Is this true or is this a useful assumption to protect us from doing something stupid?
Is it true that Friendliness is not an attractor or is it that we cannot count on such a property unless it is absolutely proven to be the case?
My idea there was that if it's not Friendly, then it's not Friendly, ergo it is doing something that you would not want an AI to be doing(if you thought faster and knew more and all that). That's the core of the quote you had there. Random intelligent agent would simply transform us into something of value, so we would most likely die very quickly. However, when you get closer to the Friendliness, Ai is no longer totally indifferent to us, but rather, is maximizing something that could involve living humans. Now, if you take an AI that wants there to be li...
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