lmm comments on Naturalistic trust among AIs: The parable of the thesis advisor's theorem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lmm 15 December 2013 10:19:49AM -1 points [-]

Is biting the bullet on the thesis advisor analogy really such a problem? Given an infinite human history, it seems like if the proposition was actually false then at some point someone would have noticed.

Comment author: Roxolan 15 December 2013 04:47:58PM 5 points [-]

if the proposition was actually false then at some point someone would have noticed.

You're thinking of real human beings, when this is just a parable used to make a mathematical point. The "advisors" are formal deterministic algorithms without the ability to jump out of the system and question their results.