shokwave comments on Connecting Your Beliefs (a call for help) - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lukeprog 20 November 2011 05:18AM

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Comment author: shokwave 21 November 2011 11:06:51AM 0 points [-]

If we restrict the space of its terminal goals to things we can imagine (and then set about proving each thing to be friendly) then we can be sure that even thinking in ways we cannot fathom, as long as its goal structure doesn't change (this seems decoupled from intelligence ie paperclip maximiser) it won't ever do bad things X Y or Z (because it checks them against its terminal goal).

Comment author: shminux 21 November 2011 11:59:12PM 2 points [-]

That directly contradicts the EY's CEV, where whatever we can imagine is no more than a part of the Initial Dynamics. "Thou shalt..." or "Thou shalt not..." is not going to do the trick.

Comment author: shokwave 22 November 2011 04:33:06AM 2 points [-]

Right. Downgrading my estimate of how well I understand the problem.