private_messaging comments on Genies and Wishes in the context of computer science - Less Wrong

15 Post author: private_messaging 30 August 2013 12:43PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 31 August 2013 08:58:28PM *  2 points [-]

There's also the thing that you'd only get this dangerous AI that you can't use for anything by bolting together a bunch of magical technologies to handicap something genuinely useful, much like you obtain an unusable outcome pump by attaching a fictional through wall 3D scanner to a place where two dangling wires that you have to touch together after your mother is saved would have worked just fine.

Comment author: David_Gerard 31 August 2013 09:21:33PM 0 points [-]

The genie post is sort of useful as a musing on philosophy and the inexactitude of words, but is still ridiculous as a threat model.