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gwern comments on AI box: AI has one shot at avoiding destruction - what might it say? - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: ancientcampus 22 January 2013 08:22PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 January 2013 02:19:21AM 13 points [-]

unlimited access to the internet

instant fail. I could probably hack my way out of a box with only GET requests.

Comment author: gwern 23 January 2013 03:59:30AM 6 points [-]

I meant that the player had access to the contemporary Internet as an analogue to 'what information could the boxed AI have access to' (perhaps it's given a big static dump of the Internet prior to its creation).

Comment author: [deleted] 23 January 2013 04:13:18AM 5 points [-]

Ooops. Didn't think of that. Of course that was your intent, master archivist.

Comment author: gwern 23 January 2013 04:20:08AM 1 point [-]

No, I should've been clearer.