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Comment author: Broolucks 05 September 2013 10:08:57PM 2 points [-]

We were talking about extracting knowledge about a particular human from that human's text stream, though. It is already assumed that the AI knows about human psychology. I mean, assuming the AI can understand a natural language such as English, it obviously already has access to a large corpus of written works, so I'm not sure why it would bother foraging in source code, of all things. Besides, it is likely that seed AI would be grown organically using processes inspired from evolution or neural networks. If that is so, it wouldn't even contain any human-written code at all.

Comment author: RobbBB 05 September 2013 10:12:03PM 0 points [-]

Ah. I was assuming that the AI didn't know English, or anything about human psychology. My expectation is that individual variation contributes virtually nothing to the best techniques a superintelligence would use to persuade a random (trained, competent) human to release it, regardless of whether it had an easy way to learn about the individual variation.