FAWS comments on The Hidden Complexity of Wishes - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 November 2007 12:12AM

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Comment author: FAWS 25 March 2011 02:05:22PM 0 points [-]

Doesn't protect against unforeseen consequences and is possibly underspecified (How should the wish work when it needs to affect things the wisher doesn't understand? Create a version of the wisher that does understand? What if there are multiple possible versions that don't agree on interpretations among each other?).