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Lumifer comments on Goal completion: the rocket equations - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 20 January 2016 01:54PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 January 2016 02:13:26PM 0 points [-]

That's the next step, once we have the apping done correctly (ie distinguishing noise from performance).

Comment author: Lumifer 21 January 2016 03:25:45PM 1 point [-]

distinguishing noise from performance

That, actually, is a very very big problem.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 January 2016 10:15:34AM 1 point [-]

Yes. But it might not be as bad as the general AI problem. If we end up with an AI that believes that some biases are values, it will waste a lot of effort, but might not be as terrible as it could be. But that requires a bit more analysis than my vague comment, I'll admit.