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Warrigal comments on Evaluating the feasibility of SI's plan - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: JoshuaFox 10 January 2013 08:17AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 January 2013 01:34:18AM 0 points [-]

If I understand you correctly, you're asserting that nobody has ever come close to writing a sandbox in which code can run but not "escape". I was under the impression that this had been done perfectly, many, many times. Am I wrong?

Comment author: JoshuaFox 17 January 2013 09:28:28PM 2 points [-]

There are different kinds of escape. No Java program has every convinced a human to edit the security-permissions file on computer where the Java program is running. But that could be a good way to escape the sandbox.