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8 Post author: owencb 29 May 2015 10:06PM

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 30 May 2015 06:17:23PM 0 points [-]

that producing safe AI requires (what is currently) extraordinary success at "getting things right first time", so that

See my reply above - this line of thought is fundamentally mistaken. Simulation testing is far more of an effective general solution than formal verification.

Comment author: gjm 30 May 2015 08:36:34PM 1 point [-]

Just to clarify: I was stating the thesis of the OP, not asserting it. Neither am I now denying it. (I don't find myself altogether convinced either by the OP or by your arguments for why the OP is "probably completely mistaken".)