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

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Comment author: Desrtopa 03 February 2011 06:25:08PM 2 points [-]

But it's a sui generis problem... I'm not sure what information a time table could be based on other than the fact that it has been way longer than a month and no one has succeeded yet.

Supposing anyone had already succeeded, how strong an expectation do you think we should have of knowing about it?

Comment author: Jack 03 February 2011 06:50:13PM *  5 points [-]

Not all that strong. It may well be out there in some obscure journal but just wasn't interesting enough for anyone to bother replying to. Hell, it multiple people may have succeeded.

But I think "success" might actually be underdetermined here. Some philosophers may have had the right insights, but I suspect that if they had communicated those insights in the formal method necessary for Friendly AI the insights would have felt insightful to readers and the papers would have gotten attention. Of course, I'm not even familiar with cutting edge metaethics. There may well be something like that out there. It doesn't help that no one here seems willing to actually read philosophy in non-blog format.

Comment author: XiXiDu 03 February 2011 07:45:33PM 3 points [-]

It may well be out there in some obscure journal but just wasn't interesting enough for anyone to bother replying to. Hell, it multiple people may have succeeded.

Yep:

In 1993, scientists achieved the maximum rate for data transmission — only to find they’d been scooped 30 years earlier by an MIT grad student.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 February 2011 06:31:35PM 4 points [-]

Related question: suppose someone handed us a successful solution, would we recognize it?

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