komponisto comments on A Thought on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 December 2010 04:13:41PM *  1 point [-]

A corollary is a necessary condition for friendliness: if the utility function of an AI can take values much larger than the complexity of the input, then it is unfriendly. This kills Pascal's mugging and paperclip maximizers with the same stone. It even sounds simple and formal enough to imagine testing it on a given piece of code.

Comment author: komponisto 10 December 2010 07:12:35PM *  1 point [-]

I think I agree.

Perhaps one way to state the complexity-of-value thesis would be to say that the utility function should be bounded by Kolmogorov complexity.