I've been hearing about this fic for a long time, and I've been somewhat suspicious of it. I knew that Eliezer is a pretty good writer, but that his attempts to graft Bayes onto his characters are invariably rather inorganic. On top of that, OOC is irritating to me even...
Here's another attempt to make an AI safe by putting it in a box and telling it very sternly not to leave. I don't think this safeguard is invincible, but it might help in combination with others. The AI is, first of all, a question-answering machine. Before it is turned...
I wrote an article that I hoped to post on the main page, but then I got stage fright and was afraid to even put it here. So I guess I'm just going to show it to whichever of you is willing to review it privately. Any takers? Qualifications: must...
Every month on the month, Less Wrong has a thread where we post Deep Wisdom from the Masters. I saw that nobody did this yet for December for some reason, so I figured I could do it myself. * Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted...
For a long time, I wanted to ask something. I was just thinking about it again when I saw that Alicorn has a post on a similar topic. So I decided to go ahead. The question is: what is the difference between morally neutral stimulus responces and agony? What features...