prase comments on asking an AI to make itself friendly - Less Wrong Discussion
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Questions can be interpreted in different ways. Especially considering your further suggestion to involve ethicists and philosophers, once someone asks whether "is it moral to nuke Pyongyang", and I am far from sure you can prove that "yes" is not a truthful answer.
Answers can be formulated creatively. "Either thirteen, or we may consider nuking Pyongyang" is a truthful answer to "how much is six plus seven". Now this is trivial and unlikely to persuade anybody, but perhaps you can imagine far more creative works of sophistry on the output of a superintelligent AI.
This is opaque. What exactly the question means? You have to specify optimal, and that's the difficult thing. Unless you are very certain and strict about meaning of "optimal", you may end up with arbitrary answer.
Given the history of moral philosophy, I wouldn't trust a group of ethicists enough. Philosophers can be persuaded to defend a lot of atrocities.
How does the flaw detection process work? What does it mean to have a flaw in a definition?