Resetting Gandhi-Einstein

Stuart_Armstrong

Toy model of an upload-based AI that doesn't seem to suffer too many of the usual flaws:

Find an ethical smart scientist (a Gandhi-Einstein), upload them, and then run them at ultra high speed, with the mission of taking over the world/bringing friendliness to it. Every hour of subjective time, they get reset to their initial specifications. They can pass any information to their resetted version (limiting the format of that info to a virtual book or library, rather than anything more complicated).

Toy model of an upload-based AI that doesn't seem to suffer too many of the usual flaws:

I fully agree.

A possible solution would be to lengthen the time interval, at a guess you could give them a subjective week without worrying about too much personality change, making it more possible for them to successfully write down everything important.

I'm still very worried about the morality of it, as I see it the resetting amounts to mass-murder.

I'm still very worried about the molarity of it

Absolutely. We need to add a few liters of solvent to get the concentration down to acceptable molarity.

0Stuart_Armstrong15y

So do I. I think it's a hideous immoral idea. Only because the lives of everyone else are in the balance would I consider it.

-1Zetetic15y

This is a little bit difficult to gauge. It seems like it should be roughly equivalent to a surgical memory alteration during cryogenic stasis or something like that, since you're essentially starting the thing right back up again after removing some of the memories. In fact, I don't see why you can't just do a memory alteration and bypass the reset altogether, given that it seems desirable to retain some parts of the memory and not others.

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