nigerweiss comments on Noisy Reasoners - Less Wrong

11 Post author: lukeprog 13 December 2012 07:53AM

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Comment author: nigerweiss 14 December 2012 08:20:28AM 1 point [-]

Repeated self modification is problematic, because it represents a product of series (though possibly a convergent one, if the AI gets better at maintaining its utility function / rationality with each modification) -- naively, because no projection about the future can have a confidence of 1, there is some chance that each change to the AI will be negative-value.

Comment author: MrMind 14 December 2012 11:16:47AM 0 points [-]

Right, it's not only noise that can alter the value of copying/propagating source code, since we can at least imagine that future improvements will be also more stable in this regard: there's also the possibility that the moral landscape of an AI could be fractal, so that even a small modification might turn friendliness into unfriendliness/hostility.