cousin_it comments on Formalizing Value Extrapolation - Less Wrong

14 Post author: paulfchristiano 26 April 2012 12:51AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 26 April 2012 06:02:52PM *  2 points [-]

Should/will the AI assume it's environment is universally distributed?

Maybe the AI could also ask the hypothetical human upload for the right universal distribution to use? Such an AI probably wouldn't work out of the box, but there could be some sort of bootstrapping scheme...

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 April 2012 06:09:44PM *  2 points [-]

Maybe the AI could also ask the hypothetical human upload for the right universal distribution to use?

Certainly, but it's not even clear what that distribution should be over, and whether considering probability distributions at all is the right thing to do. The initial AGI needs some operating principles, but these principles should allow fundamental correction, as the research on the inside proceeds (for which they have to be good enough initially).