benelliott 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: 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.