XiXiDu comments on Muehlhauser-Wang Dialogue - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lukeprog 22 April 2012 10:40PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 23 April 2012 06:49:18AM 4 points [-]

What makes me trust Pei Wang more than Luke is the common-sense statements like "to make AGI safe, to control their experience will probably be the main approach (which is what “education” is all about), but even that cannot guarantee safety." and "unless you get a right idea about what AGI is and how it can be built, it is very unlikely for you to know how to make it safe".

Um... but these are statements I agreed with.

I wish Pei had taken the time to read the articles I repeatedly linked to, for they were written precisely to explain why his position is misguided.

Comment author: XiXiDu 23 April 2012 09:27:43AM *  4 points [-]

I wish Pei had taken the time to read the articles I repeatedly linked to, for they were written precisely to explain why his position is misguided.

The reactions I got (from a cognitive scientist and another researcher) is that Bostrom is a "sloppy thinker" (original words) and that SI's understanding of AGI is naive.

Michael Littman told me he is going to read some of the stuff too. I haven't got an answer yet though.