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NancyLebovitz comments on Tool/Agent distinction in the light of the AI box experiment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 16 July 2012 03:31:19AM 3 points [-]

There's a book called How to Lie with Maps, and it's got a little about how to use maps to manipulate people-- not just the Soviet maps which were produced by their security people, and therefore obfuscated locations (I didn't expect the Soviets to resemble Tolkien's elves, but both had secret cities), but also commercial maps which offer a simple direct route to one's business, but won't take you past competitors.

I don't know how a UFAI could use such powers (perhaps GPS would keep getting anyone who threatened it stuck in traffic so they'd have less time to work on programming), but it's going to be sneakier than I am.