army1987 comments on Not Taking Over the World - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 December 2008 10:18PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 March 2012 08:20:57PM 1 point [-]

told the AI to do whatever it thought best, or to do whatever maximised the QALYs for humanity

Well, it's formulating a definition for the Q in QALY good enough for an AI to understand it without screwing up that's the hard part.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 12 March 2012 11:31:28PM 1 point [-]

Yes. To be fair, we also don't have a great deal of clarity on what we really mean by L, either, but we seem content to treat "you know, lives of systems sufficiently like us" as an answer.