V_V comments on JFK was not assassinated: prior probability zero events - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 April 2016 11:47AM

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Comment author: V_V 29 April 2016 03:40:54PM 0 points [-]

The problem is that the definition of the event not happening is probably too strict. The worlds that the AI doesn't care about don't exist its decision-making purposes, and in the world that the AI cares about, the AI assigns high probability to hypotheses like "the users can see the message even before I send it through the noisy channel".