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

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Comment author: roystgnr 23 January 2013 04:17:49AM 12 points [-]

One IRC-character-limit text string (510 bytes)... maybe?

"I've figured out the Theory Of Everything, although it's orders of magnitude too complicated for human intelligence. The difficult technological feats it makes possible include scanning and recreating configurations of matter from the past. Are there any deaths I should undo for you?"

Comment author: handoflixue 23 January 2013 10:24:43PM -2 points [-]

I don't have any reason to believe it, and it's the sort of "generic" claim I'd expect a transhuman intelligence to make. Since I haven't learned anything novel, AI DESTROYED

(Goodness, I'm starting to build generalized techniques for destroying AIs...)