Wei_Dai comments on Wanted: backup plans for "seed AI turns out to be easy" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 29 September 2011 08:03:32PM *  3 points [-]

How quickly do you think we can develop uploading tech given such an AI? Would it be quick enough if others were writing seed AIs that can FOOM directly?

ETA: Also, while you're using this AI to develop upload tech, it seems vulnerable to being stolen or taken by force.

Comment author: cousin_it 29 September 2011 08:23:59PM *  2 points [-]

I don't know. It seems to be a good reason to spend effort today on formalizing the problems that lead to uploading tech. One possible way is through protein folding and nanotech. Another way is to infer the microscopic structure of my brain from knowledge of current physics and enough macroscopic observations (e.g. webcam videos of me, or MRI scans, or something). That would make a nice formalizable problem for an AI in a box.