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Incorrect comments on SMBC comic: poorly programmed average-utility-maximizing AI - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Jonathan_Graehl 06 April 2012 07:18AM

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Comment author: Incorrect 06 April 2012 02:22:42PM 0 points [-]

Well yes, but I would assume you would want more alignment, not less.

Comment author: Dmytry 06 April 2012 02:49:13PM *  0 points [-]

There's such thing as over-fitting... if you have some noisy data, the theory that fits the data ideally is just the table of the data (e.g. heights and falling times); the useful theory doesn't fit data exactly in practice. If we make the AI perfectly fit to what mankind does, we could just as well make a brick and proclaim it an omnipotent omniscient mankind-friendly AI that will never stop the mankind from doing something that mankind wants (including taking the extinction risks).