Stuart_Armstrong comments on Value Loading - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 23 October 2012 02:16:42PM 4 points [-]

It's more an FHI term than a SI/LessWrong term.

It's often called "indirect normativity": a strategy in which instead of directly encoding the goal for an AI (or moral agent), we specify a certain way of "learning what to value/inferring human values" so that the AI can then deduce human values (and then implement it).

Comment author: Manfred 23 October 2012 08:28:31PM 2 points [-]

Ah, so it means the same thing as "value learning?" For some reason when I read "value loading" I thought of, like, overloading a function :D "I want cake, and that desire is also a carnal lust for BEES!"

Comment author: DaFranker 23 October 2012 08:57:32PM *  0 points [-]

What helped me was thinking of it in terms of: "Oh, like 'reading' human preferences as if they were an XML config file that the program loads at runtime."