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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong Discussion

-13 Post author: aberglas 29 September 2014 08:52AM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 30 September 2014 09:58:15AM 0 points [-]

Maybe. But in that case the drift implies a selection mechanism - and in the absence of some goal in that direction natural selection applies. Those AI that don't stabilize mutate or stop.