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Lumifer comments on An Oracle standard trick - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 08 June 2015 02:55:44PM 0 points [-]

it is preferable that it doesn't believe anyone is listening to the answers it gives

I don't think so. As I mentioned in another subthread here, I consider separating what an AI believes (e.g. that no one is listening) from what it actually does (e.g. answer questions) to be a bad idea.