Comment on Open Thread: June 2009

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:14:37 GMT

That's pretty condensed. One of my video/essays discusses the underlying idea. To quote:

"One thing that might help is to put the agent into a quiescent state before being switched off. In the quiescent state, utility depends on not taking any of its previous utility-producing actions. This helps to motivate the machine to ensure subcontractors and minions can be told to cease and desist. If the agent is doing nothing when it is switched off, hopefully, it will continue to do nothing.

Problems with the agent's sense of identity can be partly addressed by making sure that it has a good sense of identity. If it makes minions, it should count them as somatic tissue, and ensure they are switched off as well. Subcontractors should not be "switched off" - but should be tracked and told to desist - and so on."

http://alife.co.uk/essays/stopping_superintelligence/

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