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Really. That really is what people are expecting of a strong FAI. Compared with us, it will be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. Unlike currently believed-in Gods, there will be no problem of evil because it will remove all evil from the world. It will do what the Epicurean argument demands of any God worthy of the name.
Are you telling me that if a wFAI were capable of eliminating war, famine and disease, it wouldn't be developed first?
Well, I don't take seriously any of these speculations about God-like vs. merely angel-like creations. They're just a distraction from the task of actually building them, which no-one knows how to do anyway.
But still, if a wFAI was capable of eliminating those things, why be picky and try for sFAI?
Because we have no idea how hard it is to specify either. If, along the way it turns out to be easy to specify wFAI and risky to specify sFAI, then the reasonable course is expected. Doubly so since a wFAI would almost certainly be useful in helping specify a sFAI.
Seeing as human values are a miniscule target, it seems probable that specifying wFAI is harder than sFAI though.
"Specify"? What do you mean?
specifications a la programming.
Why would it be harder? One could tell the wFAI improve factors that are strongly correlated with human values, such as food stability, resources that cure preventable diseases (such as diarrhea, which, as we know, kills way more people than it should) and security from natural disasters.
Because if you screw up specifying human values you don't get wFAI you just die (hopefully).
It's not optimizing human values, it's optimizing circumstances that are strongly correlated with human values. It would be a logistics kind of thing.