Vladimir_Nesov comments on BOOK DRAFT: 'Ethics and Superintelligence' (part 1) - Less Wrong
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wedrifid is right: if you're now counting on failsafes to stop CEV from doing the wrong thing, that means you could apply the same procedures to any other proposed AI, so the real value of your life's work is in the failsafe, not in CEV. What happened to all your clever arguments saying you can't put external chains on an AI? I just don't understand this at all.
Any given FAI design can turn out to be unable to do the right thing, which corresponds to tripping failsafes, but to be a FAI it must also be potentially capable (for all we know) of doing the right thing. Adequate failsafe should just turn off an ordinary AGI immediately, so it won't work as an AI-in-chains FAI solution. You can't make AI do the right thing just by adding failsafes, you also need to have a chance of winning.
Affirmed.