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Pavitra comments on Caelum est Conterrens: I frankly don't see how this is a horror story - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Pavitra 08 March 2013 04:54:11AM *  4 points [-]

Consider the epistemic state of someone who knows that they have the attention of a vastly greater intelligence than themselves, but doesn't know whether that intelligence is Friendly. An even-slightly-wrong CAI will modify your utility function, and there's nothing you can do but watch it happen.

Comment author: DanielH 17 October 2013 05:43:11AM 0 points [-]

An even-slightly-wrong CAI won't modify your utility function because she isn't wrong in that way. An even-slightly-wrong CAI does do several other bad things, but that isn't one of them.