Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on I attempted the AI Box Experiment (and lost) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 January 2013 08:02:50PM 15 points [-]

I think this is making a five-inch fence half an inch higher. It's just not relevant on the scale of an agent to which a human is a causal system made of brain areas and a group of humans is just another causal system made of several interacting copies of those brain areas.

Comment author: JoachimSchipper 23 January 2013 07:55:48AM 2 points [-]

I agree that the AI you envision would be dangerously likely to escape a "competent" box too; and in any case, even if you manage to keep the AI in the box, attempts to actually use any advice it gives are extremely dangerous.

That said, I think your "half an inch" is off by multiple orders of magnitude.