Decius comments on The Blue-Minimizing Robot - Less Wrong

162 Post author: Yvain 04 July 2011 10:26PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 February 2013 01:55:11AM *  0 points [-]

I'm putting 'dumb' at roughly the level of cognition of a human infant

Then, as per the grandparent, the answer to the rhetorical question "Why would a dumb 'minimize blue' robot search for blue things?" is because it doesn't happen to be a robot designed with the exact same peculiarities and weaknesses of a human infant.

Comment author: Decius 03 February 2013 10:32:38PM -1 points [-]

Lack of object permanence isn't a peculiar weakness. The ability to spontaneously leave Plato's cave is one of the things that I reserve for 'smart' actors as opposed to 'dumb' ones.