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Squark comments on Will AGI surprise the world? - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: lukeprog 21 June 2014 10:27PM

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Comment author: Squark 22 June 2014 03:56:06PM 1 point [-]

I don't understand what point you're trying to make. My point was that cooperative game theory doesn't magically guarantee a UFAI will treat us nicely. It might work but only if there is a sufficiently substantial Everett branch with a FAI. The probability of that branch probably strongly depends on effort invested into FAI research.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 22 June 2014 05:39:28PM 0 points [-]

If the probability of FAI (and friendly uploads etc) is near zero, then we're doomed either way. But even though I believe the probability of provably friendly AI coming first is <50% , its definitely not 10^-11!

Comment author: Squark 22 June 2014 05:54:39PM 0 points [-]

Fair enough, but there's still an enormous incentive to work on FAI.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 22 June 2014 07:15:36PM 0 points [-]

Of course, I was not trying to suggest otherwise.