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1 Post author: Houshalter 02 February 2016 07:39PM

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Comment author: gjm 02 February 2016 10:48:58PM *  2 points [-]

Enough skill in oratory (or something closely related) gets you unboxed. The question is how plausible it is that a superintelligent AI would have enough. (A related question is whether there's such a thing as enough. There might not be, just as there's no such thing as enough kinetic energy to let you escape from inside a black hole's horizon, but the reported results of AI-Box games[1] suggest -- though they certainly don't prove -- that there is.)

[1] The term "experiments" seems a little too highfalutin'.

[EDITED to add: I take it Houshalter is saying that Hitler's known oratorical skills aren't enough to convince him that H. would have won an AI-Box game, playing as the AI. I am inclined to agree. Hitler was very good at stirring up a crowd, but it's not clear how that generalizes to persuading an intelligent and skeptical individual.]