Vulture comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 109 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 23 February 2015 09:03:56PM 2 points [-]

I thought EY said there would be no AI analogy, and yet the mirror clearly is an AI (and it seems more FAI to me than NAI)

Well, I suppose he changed his mind.

With relatively little support, the tiny handful of would-be makers of this device labored under working conditions that were not so much dramatically arduous, as pointlessly annoying.

Are MIRI's working conditions pointlessly annoying?

Comment author: SilentCal 23 February 2015 10:20:35PM 4 points [-]

If anyone has the exact wording of the no-AI promise, I'd like to examine it.

Comment author: Vulture 24 February 2015 05:53:27PM 3 points [-]

Working from memory, I believe that when asked about AI in the story, Eliezer said "they say a crackpot is someone who won't change his mind and won't change the subject -- I endeavor to at least change the subject." Obviously this is non-binding, but it still seems odd to me that he would go ahead and do the whole thing that he did with the mirror.

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