timtyler comments on Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 21 December 2010 06:46:17PM 2 points [-]

To recap, (b) was: 'Verification of "proof of friendliness" is easier than its production'.

For that to work as a plan in context, the verification doesn't have to be infallible. It just needs not to have false positives. False negatives are fine - i.e. if a good machine is rejected, that isn't the end of the world.