TheOtherDave comments on AI Box Role Plays - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 24 January 2012 01:50:46PM 0 points [-]

If the game supports these sort of strategies, I'm happy to play the modified role of gatekeeper against any number of AIs, any time.

Don't even bother telling me about it, though, just assume that I'm using the winning strategy of walking away from the communications device and doing something else while the AI talks to empty space.

I predict that, using this strategy, I will win 100% of the time against human opponents.

(Just to be clear, I'm not making that prediction about an actual boxed AI.)

Comment author: wedrifid 24 January 2012 02:21:39PM 2 points [-]

Don't even bother telling me about it, though, just assume that I'm using the winning strategy of walking away from the communications device and doing something else while the AI talks to empty space.

That seems to be a violation of the basic rules of the game. That gatekeeper can sit there, read the text and then just reply "F@#@ off" regardless of what they AI says but they have to engage to at least that degree.

Comment author: Sly 24 January 2012 07:49:57PM *  1 point [-]

Exactly. I already told people I would read everything they said. I can read what the AI says, and just mess with it. Trolling the whole time.

The point is, this game is trivially easy to win as the gatekeeper. You just need to think competitively. I don't see how the AI beats troll mode either. Text is weak.

My tone is intended to provoke challenges, because I estimated that no one would accept my challenge (and I really want to try this out).

Comment author: Prismattic 25 January 2012 02:26:26AM 0 points [-]

A true superintelligent AI would probably do things like screw with the display's refresh rate to send subliminal signals or something else, beyond the plain text.

Comment author: Sly 25 January 2012 05:33:02AM 0 points [-]

Really? I don't accept that the refresh rate of the computer can affect me to that degree, nor do I accept that the AI would magically know how to do that without data.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 24 January 2012 03:02:36PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, fair enough. I was annoyed by my reading of Sly's tone (and, indeed, I am now imagining Sly responding "hey, if it's more important to you to follow rules than win then...") and I overextended in consequence. Retracted.