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HungryHobo comments on xkcd on the AI box experiment - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: FiftyTwo 21 November 2014 08:26AM

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 21 November 2014 10:34:16AM 2 points [-]

Let's just tell the acausal trade story in terms of extreme positive utility rather than negative.

Putting it simply for the purpose of this comment: "If you do what the future AI wants now, it will reward you when it comes into being."

Makes the whole discussion much more cheerful.

Comment author: HungryHobo 21 November 2014 12:29:45PM 9 points [-]

and becomes indistinguishable from religion.