Leonhart comments on What's special about a fantastic outcome? Suggestions wanted. - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 November 2014 11:04AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 November 2014 06:16:00AM 2 points [-]

I presume the answer you're looking for isn't "fun theory", but I can't tell from OP whether you're looking for distinguishers from our perspective or from an AI's perspective.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 November 2014 06:39:10PM 2 points [-]

I'm looking for something generic that is easy to measure. At a crude level, if the only option were "papercliper" vs FAI, then we could distinguish those worlds by counting steel content.

So basically some more or less objective measure that has a higher proportion of good outcomes than the baseline.

Comment author: Leonhart 13 November 2014 09:52:36PM 1 point [-]

Smiles, laughter, hugging, the humming or whistling of melodies in a major key, skipping, high-fiving and/or brofisting, loud utterance of "Huzzah" or "Best thing EVER!!!", airborne nanoparticles of cake, streamers, balloons, accordion music? On the assumption that the AI was not explicitly asked to produce these things, of course.