What happens if we ask the oracle to handle meta questions? As an example:
Question Meta: "If I ask you the questions below and you process them all in parallel, which will you answer first?"
Question 0: "What is 1+1?"
Question 1: "Will you use more than 1 millisecond to answer any of these questions?"
Question 2: "Will you use more than 1 watt to answer any of these questions?"
Question 3: "Will you use more than 1 cubic foot of space to answer any of these questions?"
Question 4: "Will you use more than 10^27 atoms to answer any of these questions?"
Question 5: "Will you use more than 1 billion operations to answer any of these questions?"
Question 6: "Will you generate an inferential gap between us to answer any of these questions?"
If the oracle answers "Question 4 will be answered first." Then you may not want to proceed because there is an inferential gap in that answering 1+1 in the sense you probably mean it should not take more than 10^27 atoms.
Of course, the ORACLE itself is ALSO looking for inferential gaps. So if it identifies one, it would answer "Question 6 will be answered first."
That being said, this feels like a bizarre way to code safety measures.
I don't see how this helps at all. Either the answer is question 0 or asking this question is going to get you into a lot of trouble.
The Future of Humanity Institute wants to pick the brains of the less wrongers :-)
Do you have suggestions for safe questions to ask an Oracle? Interpret the question as narrowly or broadly as you want; new or unusual ideas especially welcome.