timtyler comments on Journal of Consciousness Studies issue on the Singularity - Less Wrong

14 Post author: lukeprog 02 March 2012 03:56PM

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Comment author: timtyler 03 March 2012 02:32:30AM 3 points [-]

Pretty good overview of the AI boxing problem with respect to covert channels; possibly the first time I've see Eliezer's experiments cited, or Stuart Armstrong's Dr. Evil anthropic attack.

It says:

Careful analysis of the protocol used by Yudkowsky in conducting his AI-Box experiments reveals that they were unscientific and explicitly designed to show impossibility of confinement.

Comment author: gwern 03 March 2012 02:38:38AM 6 points [-]

Well, weren't they? That was the whole point, I had the impression on SL4...