TheAncientGeek comments on Siren worlds and the perils of over-optimised search - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 14 May 2014 07:38:58PM *  0 points [-]

There's the famous example of the .AI trained to spot tanks that actually leant to spot sunny days. That seems to underlie a lot of MIRI thinking, although at the same time the point is disguised by emphasesing explicit coding over training.