eli_sennesh comments on Probability and radical uncertainty - Less Wrong

11 Post author: David_Chapman 23 November 2013 10:34PM

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Comment author: David_Chapman 24 November 2013 04:47:22AM 3 points [-]

This is interesting—it seems like the project here would be to construct a universal, hierarchical ontology of every possible thing a device could do? This seems like a very big job... how would you know you hadn't left out important possibilities? How would you go about assigning probabilities?

(The approach I have in mind is simpler...)

Comment author: [deleted] 24 November 2013 11:28:21PM 2 points [-]

I'm currently mostly wondering how I get the black box to do anything at all, and particularly how I can protect myself against the dangerous things it might be feasible for an eldritch box to do.