polymathwannabe comments on Crazy Ideas Thread - October 2015 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 06 October 2015 10:38PM

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 07 October 2015 06:58:22PM 3 points [-]

But just like HPMOR's hat, the conscious being might switch back to nonsentience once the interaction ends.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 October 2015 08:54:40PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I wondered to what degree that could be optimized. But if you interact repeatedly and in complex ways than shouldn't you notice that? Kind of a long-duration Turing test.