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solipsist comments on True answers from AI: Summary - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 March 2016 03:56PM

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Comment author: solipsist 12 March 2016 03:14:02PM 0 points [-]

I didn't follow everything, but does this attempt to address self-fulfilling prophecies? Assume the oracle has good track record and releases its information publicly. If I ask it "What are the chances Russia and the US will engage in nuclear war in the next 6 months?", answers of "0.001" and "0.8" are probably both accurate.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 March 2016 02:57:53PM 0 points [-]

The self-fulfillment is addressed by the v_E term - the AI acts as if its predictions were never read.