timtyler comments on Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI - Less Wrong

24 Post author: paulfchristiano 18 December 2010 08:28AM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 18 December 2010 08:53:49PM 2 points [-]

You don't need to let the superintelligence give you an entire mind; you can split off subproblems for which there is a secure proof procedure, and give it those.

Comment author: timtyler 18 December 2010 09:20:33PM *  1 point [-]

Can you think of any suitable candidates - apart from perhaps an oracle.