Caledonian2 comments on The Magnitude of His Own Folly - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 September 2008 11:31AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 30 September 2008 04:47:22PM 0 points [-]

An appropriate rebuttal to the "show me the code", "show me the math" -folk here pestering you about your lack of visible results.

I'm not expecting to be shown AI code. I'm not even expecting to be shown a Friendliness implementation. But a formal definition of what 'Friendly' means seems to be a reasonable minimum requirement to take Eliezer's pronouncements seriously.

Alternatively, he could provide quantitative evidence for his reasoning regarding the dangers of AI design... or a quantitative discussion of how giving power to an AI is fundamentally different than giving power to humans when it comes to optimization.

Or a quantitative anything...