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AlexMennen comments on AI caught by a module that counterfactually doesn't exist - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 17 November 2014 05:49PM

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Comment author: AlexMennen 19 November 2014 01:31:29AM 0 points [-]

How does this differ from testing an AI in a simulated universe before letting it out into the real world?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 19 November 2014 12:59:25PM 0 points [-]

It depends on what you define "simulated universe" to be. Here it uses the AIs own prediction module to gauge the future; if you want to call that a simulated universe, the position is arguably defensible.