Mac comments on Anti-Pascaline satisficer - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 April 2015 06:49PM

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Comment author: Mac 15 April 2015 04:05:02PM 2 points [-]

I agree that making more paperclips does not reduce ε, but an unsure AI might build more paperclips nonetheless.

If x is the probability that any one paperclip is hallucinated, the AI will never be certain it has created 10 paperclips (or any for that matter) as long as x > 0. But it can increase the probability it has created 10 paperclips by making 3^^^3 of them.

Bug probes may be a more efficient way to increase the probability, but that isn't certain.