kokotajlod comments on Request for concrete AI takeover mechanisms - Less Wrong

18 Post author: KatjaGrace 28 April 2014 01:04AM

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Comment author: kokotajlod 28 April 2014 06:38:19PM 5 points [-]

Perhaps that's exactly what this is. Perhaps that is all MIRI wants from us right now. As Mestroyer said, maybe MIRI wants to be able to spin a plausible story for the purpose of convincing people, not for the purpose of actually predicting what would happen.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 April 2014 06:54:50PM 5 points [-]

maybe MIRI wants to be able to spin a plausible story for the purpose of convincing people

So, to give a slightly uncharitable twist to it, we are asked to provide feedstock material for a Dark Arts exercise? X-D