robertzk comments on Andrew Ng dismisses UFAI concerns - Less Wrong

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Comment author: robertzk 07 March 2015 06:12:05AM *  0 points [-]

However, UFFire does not uncontrollably exponentially reproduce or improve its functioning. Certainly a conflagration on a planet covered entirely by dry forest would be an unmitigatable problem rather quickly.

In fact, in such a scenario, we should dedicate a huge amount of resources to prevent it and never use fire until we have proved it will not turn "unfriendly".

Comment author: Locaha 08 March 2015 10:00:17AM -2 points [-]

However, UFFire does not uncontrollably exponentially reproduce or improve its functioning. Certainly a conflagration on a planet covered entirely by dry forest would be an unmitigatable problem rather quickly.

Do you realize this is a totally hypothetical scenario?