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Comment author: wedrifid 05 April 2012 04:28:15PM 2 points [-]

After having read this chapter, I now believe that Eliezer intended Dumbledore to represent a failed attempt at the creation of Friendly AI.

Eliezer would never portray a failed creation of an FAI as someone so impotent and comparatively benign.

Comment author: TimS 05 April 2012 04:36:08PM -2 points [-]

Maybe he wouldn't, but that is a fact about him, not about AI. There's a narrow slice of concept space that includes uFAI that is almost benign. Not that I think it's likely that we could intentionally build such an entity. And we shouldn't want to, for basically the same reasons that we shouldn't want to build uFAI generally.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 April 2012 04:40:47PM *  3 points [-]

Maybe he wouldn't, but that is a fact about him, not about AI.

Yes. I asserted a fact about Eliezer, not about AI or green cheese. No 'but' is required.

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