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rikisola comments on Help needed: nice AIs and presidential deaths - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 June 2015 04:47PM

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Comment author: rikisola 08 July 2015 10:50:46AM 0 points [-]

Every idea that comes to my mind is faced by the big question "if we were able to program a nice AI for that situation, why would we not program it to be nice in every situation". I mean, it seems to me that in that scenario we would have both a solid definition of niceness and the ability to make the AI stick to it. Could you elaborate a little on that? Maybe an example?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 July 2015 01:37:44PM 0 points [-]

This is basically in the line of my attempt to get high impact from reduced impact AIs. These are trying to extend part of "reduced impact" from a conditional situation, to a more general situation; see http://lesswrong.com/lw/m25/high_impact_from_low_impact/

Comment author: rikisola 08 July 2015 12:48:18PM 0 points [-]

Nevermind this comment, I read some more of your posts on the subject and I think I got the point now ;)