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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 21 August 2014 10:16:21AM 2 points [-]

Otherwise compared to nothing, or otherwise compared to informal methods?

Are you talking into account that the formal/proveable/unupdateable approach has a drawback in the AI domain that it doesn't have in the non AI domain, namely you lose the potential to tell an AI "stop doing that,it isn't nice"

Comment author: lukeprog 21 August 2014 03:46:04PM -1 points [-]

you lose the potential to tell an AI "stop doing that,it isn't nice"

How so?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 22 August 2014 02:57:02PM *  0 points [-]

Do you think that wouldl work on Clippie?