xamdam comments on Rationality Quotes: December 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HonoreDB 15 December 2010 09:51:22AM 5 points [-]

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

--J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 December 2010 10:34:22AM 10 points [-]

I can't help but ask whether you've ever found this advice personally useful, and if so, how.

Comment author: xamdam 15 December 2010 10:50:02AM 4 points [-]

Never trust another computational agent unless you can see its source code?