Tom_Breton comments on AIs and Gatekeepers Unite! - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Tom_Breton 10 October 2008 03:45:26AM 0 points [-]

Apparently the people who played gatekeeper previously held the idea that it was impossible for an AI to talk its way out. Not just for Eliezer, but for a transhuman AI; and not just for them, but for all sorts of gatekeepers. That's what is implied by saying "We will just keep it in a box".

In other words, and not meaning to cast any aspersions, they all had a blind spot. Failure of imagination, perhaps.

This blind spot may have been a factor in their loss. Having no access to the mysterious transcripts, I won't venture a guess as to how.