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 04 February 2011 11:41:17AM 1 point [-]

Yudkowsky apparently councils ignoring the ticking as well

Yes, and that comment may be the best thing he has ever written. It is a dilemma. Go too slow and the bad guys may win. Go too fast, and you may become the bad guys. For this problem, the difference between "good" and "bad" has nothing to do with good intentions.

Comment author: timtyler 04 February 2011 09:36:16PM *  2 points [-]

Another analyis is that there are at least two types of possible problem:

  • One is the "runaway superintelligence" problem - which the SIAI seems focused on;

  • Another type of problem involves the preferences of only a small subset of human being respected.

The former problem has potentially more severe consequences (astronomical waste), but an engineering error like that seems pretty unlikely - at least to me.

The latter problem could still have some pretty bad consequences for many people, and seems much more probable - at least to me.

In a resource-limited world, too much attention on the first problem could easily contribute to running into the second problem.