TheAncientGeek comments on Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 29 September 2014 09:18:11PM 1 point [-]

I don't think that 'any' sufficiently intelligent agent 'clearly' would. It requires at least a solution to the cartesianism problem which is currently unsolved and not every self-optimizing process neccessarily solves this.

Comment author: Azathoth123 30 September 2014 02:45:35AM 1 point [-]

I don't think that 'any' sufficiently intelligent agent 'clearly' would.

Any AI that doesn't will have its values drift until they drift to something that guards against value drift.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 30 September 2014 11:03:57AM *  0 points [-]

If that is both abstractly possible and compatible with adaptation. If survival requires constant adaptation, which seems likely, value stability - at least the stability of a precise and concrete set of values - may not be compatible with survival.