Jiro comments on Failed Utopia #4-2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jiro 01 June 2013 05:09:38PM *  1 point [-]

Any sane person programming such an AI would program it to have positive utility for "die if lots of people ask it to" but higher negative utility for "being in a state where lots of people ask you to die". If it's not already in such a state, it would not then go into one just to get the utility from dying.

Comment author: Articulator 13 June 2013 09:01:04PM 2 points [-]

I fear the implication is that the creator was not entirely, as you put it, sane. It is obvious that his logic and AI programming skills left something to be desired. Not that this world is that bad, but it could have stood to be so much better...