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Florian_Dietz comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Florian_Dietz 15 September 2014 11:54:00AM 2 points [-]

You can't solve AI friendliness in a vacuum. To build a friendly AI, you have to simultaneously work on the AI and the code of ethics it should use, because they are interdependent. Until you know how the AI models reality most effectively you can't know if your code of ethics uses atoms that make sense to the AI. You can try to always prioritize the ethics aspects and not make the AI any smarter until you have to do so, but you can't first make sure that you have an infallible code of ethics and only start building the AI afterwards.

Comment author: shminux 15 September 2014 05:51:54PM 1 point [-]

How is this different from the LW mainstream?

Comment author: [deleted] 15 September 2014 09:52:21PM 3 points [-]

Any work on AI implementation is seriously downvoted here.

Comment author: Florian_Dietz 15 September 2014 07:44:53PM *  2 points [-]

The last time I saw someone suggest that one should build an AI without first solving friendliness completely, he was heavily downvoted. I found that excessive, which is why I posted this. I am positively surprised to see that I basically got no reaction with my statement. My memory must have been exaggerated with time, or maybe it was just a fluke.

edit: I now seriously doubt my previous statement. I just got downvoted on a thread in which I was explicitly instructed to post contrarian opinions and where the only things that should get downvotes are spam and trolling, which I didn't do. Of course it's also just possible that someone didnt read the OP and used normal voting rules.