Brandon_Reinhart comments on AIs and Gatekeepers Unite! - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 October 2008 05:04PM

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Comment author: Brandon_Reinhart 09 October 2008 08:21:20PM 5 points [-]

Why do people post that a "meta argument" -- as they call it -- would be cheating? How can there be cheating? Anything the AI says is fair game. Would a transhuman AI restrict itself from possible paths to victory merely because it might be considered "cheating?"

The "meta argument" claim completely misses the point of the game and -- to my mind -- somehow resembles observers trying to turn a set of arguments that might win into out of bounds rules.