hairyfigment comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 04 October 2015 03:03:35AM -2 points [-]

Perhaps it would; your consistent strategy of downvoting everyone who disagrees with you

No, but I do downvote people who appear to be completely mind-killed.

Identifying game-like interactions is also (so far as I can tell) a problem no one has any inkling how to solve, especially if we don't have the prior ability to identify the agents.

Rather, identifying agents using algorithms with reasonable running time is a hard problem.

Also, consider the following relatively uncontroversial beliefs around here:

1) The universe has low Kolmogorov complexity.

2) An AGI is likely to be developed and when it does it'll take over the universe.

Now let's consider some implications of these beliefs:

3) An AGI has low Kolmogorov complexity since it can be specified as "run this low Kolmogorov complexity universe for a sufficiently long period of time".

Also the AGI to be successful is going to have to be good at detecting agents so it can dedicated sufficient resources to defeating/subverting them. Thus detecting agents must have low Kolmogorov complexity.

Comment author: hairyfigment 04 October 2015 07:00:40AM 0 points [-]

Not sure anyone is dumb enough to think the visible universe has low Kolmogorov complexity. That's actually kind of the reason why we keep talking about a universal wavefunction, and even larger Big Worlds, none of which an AGI could plausibly control.