Wei_Dai comments on Three Approaches to "Friendliness" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 17 July 2013 10:30:06PM 3 points [-]

The black box is made of humans and might be tested the usual way when (human-designed) WBE tech is developed.

Ok, I think I misunderstood you earlier, and thought that your idea was similar to Paul Christiano's, where the FAI would essentially develop the WBE tech instead of us. I had also suggested waiting for WBE tech before building FAI (although due to a somewhat different motivation), and in response someone (maybe Carl Shulman?) argued that brain-inspired AGI or low-fidelity brain emulations would likely be developed before high-fidelity brain emulations, which means the FAI would probably come too late if it waited for WBE. This seems fairly convincing to me.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 17 July 2013 10:44:08PM *  2 points [-]

Waiting for WBE is risky in many ways, but I don't see a potentially realistic plan that doesn't go through it, even if we have (somewhat) smarter humans. This path (and many variations, such as a WBE superorg just taking over "manually" and not leaving anyone else with access to physical world) I can vaguely see working, solving the security/coordination problem, if all goes right; other paths seem much more speculative to me (but many are worth trying, given resources; if somehow possible to do reliably, AI-initiated WBE when there is no human-developed WBE would be safer).