DanielLC comments on The Evil AI Overlord List - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 21 November 2012 11:24:30PM *  1 point [-]

I didn't mean that it couldn't tell. I meant that it wouldn't be immediately obvious. It might be best to find a good test before taking over the world.

ETA: and if the AI can tell if its in a simulation vs the real world then its not really a test at all.

The entire point of a test is to figure things out. If you didn't need a test to figure out things you could test for, nobody would ever run them.