TheAncientGeek comments on Fake Utility Functions - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 December 2007 04:55PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 June 2014 02:14:03PM 1 point [-]

The traditional idea with genie is that they give you what you wanted but you missed the implications of what you wanted to have.

It's garbage in, garbage out.

The problem isn't vague instructions but vague goals.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 19 June 2014 05:18:56PM *  -1 points [-]

Yeah...didn't I just argue against that?* A genie with the goal of interpreting instruction perfectly and and the competence to interpret instructions corrrctly would interpret instruction s correctly.

  • or at least stipulate in the very first sentence.