dhasenan comments on Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans) - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 October 2008 09:00PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 February 2014 04:47:24AM 0 points [-]

We're likely to insert our faulty cached wisdom deliberately. We're unlikely to insert our power-corrupts biases deliberately. We might insert something vaguely analogous accidentally, though.

As for obfuscated source code -- we would want programmatic verification of correctness, which would be another huge undertaking on top of solving the AI and FAI problems. Obfuscation doesn't help you there.