Good catch, looks like that's from this revision, which looks like it was copied over from Arbital - some LaTeX didn't make it through. I'll see if it's trivial to fix.
The page isn't dead, Arbital pages just don't load sometimes (or take 15+ seconds).
The corresponding arbital page is now (apparently) dead.
A link appears to have broken, does anyone know what “null” was supposed to link to in “policy null ” (note the extra spaces around “null”
The Orthogonality Thesis statesasserts that there can exist arbitrarily intelligent agents pursuing any kind of goal.
The strong form of the Orthogonality Thesis says that there’s no extra difficulty or complication in the existence of an intelligent agent that pursues a goal, above and beyond the computational tractability of that goal.
Suppose some strange alien came to Earth and credibly offered to pay us one million dollars’ worth of new wealth every time we created a paperclip. We’d encounter no special intellectual difficulty in figuring out how to make lots of paperclips.
That is, minds would readily be able to reason about:
The Orthogonality Thesis asserts that since these questions are not computationally intractable, it’s possible to have an agent can have any combinationthat tries to make paperclips without being paid, because paperclips are what it wants. The strong form of intelligence level and final goal,the Orthogonality Thesis says that is, its final goals and intelligence levels can vary independentlythere need be nothing especially complicated or twisted about such an agent.
The Orthogonality Thesis is a statement about computer science, an assertion about the logical design space of each other. This is in contrastpossible cognitive agents. Orthogonality says nothing about whether a human AI researcher on Earth would want to build an AI that made paperclips, or conversely, want to make a nice AI. The Orthogonality Thesis just asserts that the space of possible designs contains AIs that make paperclips. And also AIs that are nice, to the beliefextent there’s a sense of “nice” where you could say how to be nice to someone if you were paid a billion dollars to do that, becauseand to the extent you could name something physically achievable to do.
This contrasts to inevitablist theses which might assert, for example:
The reason to talk about Orthogonality is that it’s a common goal.key premise in two highly important policy-relevant propositions:
Orthogonality does not require that all agent designs be equally compatible with all goals. E.g., the agent architecture AIXI-tl can only be formulated to care about direct...
Should be fixed now.