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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 30 May 2012 01:40:35PM 2 points [-]

How do you find out whether a conflict of interests exists? That's one of the things someone who's trying to manipulate you will try to conceal, and if they're a lot smarter, they're more likely to succeed at it.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 May 2012 01:55:46PM *  1 point [-]

Sure. But I think at least some conflicts of interests are very hard to conceal. At the very least if someone finds this argument compelling the other party can't prompt them to denounce this check on principle.

Most strategies that could help one avoid malicious advice stemming from hard to detect conflicts of interests seem to have a (to me) unacceptably high false positive rate. Not so much in the context of a scenario where you are dealing with a a boxed AI but more say when one is interacting very intelligent people in a business envrionment or personal life. It seems to me that such strategies would carry high opportunity costs.