wedrifid comments on Fake Causality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CuSithBell 04 June 2012 05:18:20AM 0 points [-]

You are saying that a GAI being able to alter its own "code" on the actual code-level does not imply that it is able to alter in a deliberate and conscious fashion its "code" in the human sense you describe above?

Generally GAIs are ascribed extreme powers around here - if it has low-level access to its code, then it will be able to determine how its "desires" derive from this code, and will be able to produced whatever changes it wants. Similarly, it will be able to hack human brains with equal finesse.

Comment author: wedrifid 04 June 2012 05:47:02AM *  0 points [-]

Generally GAIs are ascribed extreme powers around here

(Yes, and this is partly just because AIs that don't meet a certain standard are implicitly excluded from the definition of the class being described. AIs below that critical threshold are considered boring and irrelevant for most purposes.)

Comment author: TheOtherDave 04 June 2012 01:27:20PM 0 points [-]

Indeed, the same typically goes for NIs. Though some speakers make exceptions for some speakers.