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JoshuaZ comments on Safe questions to ask an Oracle? - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 January 2012 06:33PM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 28 January 2012 04:24:42AM 2 points [-]

It might answer "yes" to question 4 if it interprets it is using the sun as a power source indirectly. However, if is having such inferential distance issues that it answers that way, then it probably is pretty unsafe.