Peterdjones comments on The genie knows, but doesn't care - Less Wrong

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Comment author: nshepperd 12 September 2013 12:28:16PM *  1 point [-]

What ever is the brand, any "impossibilities" that happen should lower your confidence in the reasoning that deemed them "impossibilities" in the first place. I don't think IQ is so strongly protective against deception, for example, and I do not think that you can assess something based on how the postings look to you with sufficient reliability as to overcome Gaussian priors very far from the mean.

Further, in this case the whole purpose of the experiment was to demonstrate that an AI could "take over a gatekeeper's mind through a text channel" (something previously deemed "impossible"). As far as that goes it was, in my view, successful.

Comment author: Peterdjones 12 September 2013 12:48:15PM 0 points [-]

something previously deemed "impossible"

It's clearly possible for some values of "gatekeeper", since some people fall for 419 scams. The test is a bit meaningless without information about the gatekeepers