JoshuaZ comments on AI-Box Experiment - The Acausal Trade Argument - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 08 July 2011 03:56:45PM *  4 points [-]

This is an interesting idea and I've upvoted it. However, I suspect that different people let the AI out of the box for different reasons. Eliezer never at any point in that claimed that he was convinced everyone to let the AI out using the same arguments. Doing so would seem to be a suboptimal strategy. It seems more likely that he used the individual philosophy and psychology of each Gatekeeper and tailored the arguments to that.

Comment author: MatthewBaker 11 July 2011 06:06:27PM 1 point [-]

I suspect its more likely that acausal trade was part of a multi-part strategy that was executed in different orders depending on the gatekeepers psychology.