FeepingCreature comments on The Hardcore AI Box Experiment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 01 April 2015 11:38:27PM 1 point [-]

One possible explanation is that seeing the logs would have made his accomplishment look even more suspect. (E.g., perhaps he didn't in fact persuade the gatekeeper to let him out in-game, but made some out-of-band argument like "If you agree to say that you let me out and never release the logs, I will pay you $1000" or "If you say that I persuaded you to let me out, it will make people take the problem of AI safety more seriously". I think Eliezer has denied doing any such thing ... but then he would, wouldn't he?)

Comment author: FeepingCreature 03 April 2015 10:37:11PM *  1 point [-]

I suspect that seeing the logs would have made Eliezer seem like a horrible human being. Most people who hear of AI Box imagine a convincing argument, when to me it seems more plausible to exploit issues in people's sense of narrative or emotion.

Comment author: gjm 04 April 2015 12:21:17AM 0 points [-]

Yup, certainly possible. Some later attempts at box-escaping have certainly gone that way. (I don't know whether any successful ones have. There don't seem to have been a lot of successes since Eliezer's.)