Sebastian_Hagen2 comments on The Meaning of Right - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 July 2008 01:28AM

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Comment author: Sebastian_Hagen2 29 July 2008 03:20:20PM 1 point [-]

Thank you for this post. "should" being a label for results of the human planning algorithm in backward-chaining mode the same way that "could" is a label for results of the forward-chaining mode explains a lot. It's obvious in retrospect (and unfortunately, only in retrospect) to me that the human brain would do both kinds of search in parallel; in big search spaces, the computational advantages are too big not to do it.

I found two minor syntax errors in the post: "Could make sense to ..." - did you mean "Could it make sense to ..."? "(something that has a charge of should-ness" - that parenthesis is never closed.

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As I've stated before, we are all morally obliged to prevent Eliezer from programming an AI.

Speak for yourself. I don't think EliezerYudkowsky::Right is quite the same function as SebastianHagen::Right, but I don't see a real chance of getting an AI that optimizes only for SebastianHagen::Right accepted as sysop. I'd rather settle for an acceptable compromise in what values our successor-civilization will be built on than see our civilization being stomped into dust by an entirely alien RPOP, or destroyed by another kind of existential catastrophe.