army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Endovior 11 January 2013 09:39:26PM -2 points [-]

Machines aren't capable of evil. Humans make them that way.

-Lucca, Chrono Trigger

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 11 January 2013 09:56:03PM 10 points [-]

Eh. Would you say that "humans aren't capable of evil. Evolution makes them that way"?

Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2013 11:24:47PM 0 points [-]

But humans are sapient and have rebelled against evolution, whereas machines aren't and just do what humans tell them.

The problem is that this may change in the future, and a blog sponsored by the organization that's trying to prevent exactly that is probably not the right place to post such a quote.

Comment author: Endovior 13 January 2013 12:52:40AM 0 points [-]

My point in posting it was that UFAI isn't 'evil', it's badly programmed. If an AI proves itself unfriendly and does something bad, the fault lies with the programmer.