Perplexed comments on The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Less Wrong

45 Post author: lukeprog 01 February 2011 02:15PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 03 February 2011 03:04:08PM *  2 points [-]

If you don't spend much time on the track where people just raise questions, how do you encounter the new insights that make it necessary to dance back for repairs on your track?

Just asking. :)

Though I do tend to admire your attitude of pragmatism and impatience with those who dither forever.

Comment author: benelliott 03 February 2011 05:02:00PM 2 points [-]

I presume you encounter them later on. Maybe while doing more ground-level thinking about how to actually implement your meta-ethics you realise that it isn't quite coherent.

I'm not sure if this flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach is best, but as has been pointed out before, there are costs associated with taking too long as well as with not being careful enough, there must come a point where the risk is too small and the time it would take to fix it too long.

Comment author: Perplexed 03 February 2011 05:12:18PM 0 points [-]

Well, I'll certainly agree that more potential problems are surfaced by moving ahead with the implementation than by going back to the customer with another round of questions about the requirements.