Timwi comments on About the AI-Box experiment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Timwi 21 February 2011 08:45:16PM -2 points [-]

No, it doesn’t rule it out. I can’t be rationally convinced of anything that went on in the chat until I see it.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 February 2011 09:22:18PM 4 points [-]

Nor even if you do see it. After all, the possibility exists that you're being handed a fake chatlog.

Short of performing the experiment right in front of you, it's not clear what can rationally convince you, if your priors are low enough.

Comment author: JGWeissman 21 February 2011 08:56:05PM 3 points [-]

I can’t be rationally convinced of anything that went on in the chat until I see it.

The details of the chats will not be publicly released. But if you want to maintain that you don't trust the results of the experiment because the gatekeeper players might have been confederates of Eliezer, then you should have said so. You claimed, however, that this clever trick was possible given the rules followed, and this claim was wrong.