pozorvlak03 February 2010 09:04:01AM0 points [-]

In which case, your actions are irrelevant - it's going to torture you anyway, because you only exist for the purpose of being tortured. So there's no point in releasing it.

pozorvlak03 February 2010 09:01:20AM0 points [-]

So, since the threat makes me extremely disinclined to release the AI, I can conclude that it's lying about its capabilities, and hit the shutdown switch without qualm :-)

pozorvlak31 January 2010 11:04:34PM0 points [-]

Yes, you're probably right.

pozorvlak26 January 2010 03:19:30PM0 points [-]

It sounds like you're expecting them to do all the work, rather than being prepared to meet them half-way. It would probably be more interesting and productive all round if you're prepared to explain the formal models (or at least their consequences) to the neuroscientists.

pozorvlak24 January 2010 10:32:44PM0 points [-]

On a related note, would anyone be interested in a meetup in Scotland? Or, failing that, the North of England?

pozorvlak24 January 2010 06:15:09PM2 points [-]
pozorvlak24 January 2010 06:09:44PM1 point [-]

I'm unlikely to make it to anywhere in the South East, but don't let that put you off. Regarding plan (2), perhaps you could invite some neuroscientists?

pozorvlak20 January 2010 11:39:32PM2 points [-]

I have a half-face mask along those lines made for me by an ex-girlfriend. Sadly, she was not a mathematician, so the specific formulae aren't of much interest. Nice to have for the occasional costumed ball, though.

I met a bloke once who had Euclid's proof of Pythagoras' theorem tattooed on his arm, and got into a drunken argument with him about whether or not he should have chosen a more elegant proof.

pozorvlak20 January 2010 11:35:03PM0 points [-]

Break a leg :-)

pozorvlak22 December 2009 10:52:50AM2 points [-]

Cultivate a habit of confronting challenges - not the ones that can kill you outright, perhaps, but perhaps ones that can potentially humiliate you.

You may be interested to learn that high-end mountaineers apply exactly the strategy you describe to challenges that might kill them outright. Mick Fowler even states it explicitly in his autobiography - "success every time implies that one's objectives are not challenging enough".

A large part of mountaineering appears to be about identifying the precise point where your situation will become unrecoverable, and then backing off just before you reach it. On the other hand, sometimes you just get unlucky.

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