gwern comments on Work on Security Instead of Friendliness? - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Wei_Dai 21 July 2012 06:28PM

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Comment author: gwern 23 July 2012 10:49:54PM 1 point [-]

Maybe EY meant that, on the occasions that Eliezer objected to the final result, he was correct to object half the time. So if Eliezer objected to just 1% of the derivations, on that 1% our confidence in the result of the black box would suddenly drop down to 50% from 99.5% or whatever.

Comment author: CarlShulman 23 July 2012 10:52:20PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but that's not "no better than random chance."

Comment author: gwern 23 July 2012 10:58:01PM 2 points [-]

Sure. I was suggesting a way in which an objection which is itself only 50% correct could be useful, contra Dmytry.