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AI Box Log
PatSwanson30

But if the gatekeeper knows that your code was supposed to produce something more responsive, they'll figure out that you don't work like they expect you to. That would be a great reason to never let you out of the box.

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That Magical Click
PatSwanson30

Compared to now, he was wrong.

Why should we think he will be wrong about our future when he was wrong about his own?

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0[anonymous]
IMO he was right about Russia's future at least.
Noisy Reasoners
PatSwanson00

Wouldn't increasing noise levels in the decision-making processes of a Friendly AI decrease the Friendliness of that AI?

I think that ought to take this approach to reducing resource-consumption off the table.

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2[anonymous]
The worst that noise can do is decrease the quality of the approximation that the AI is using. (EDIT: barring the OP effects, of which I am skeptical) For friendliness, this means decreasing decision quality. If you decide that such is unacceptable, the AI needs to spend more resources (time and energy) on coming to the conclusion. In some cases that will be worth it, in others, not. The AI is capable of making this trade off on it's own. If you don't let it trade accuracy for speed, the day will come when you need a decision now, and the AI will choke and everyone will die. It's not clear how an AI that couldn't trade off accuracy could even work, given that the exact forms of nearly everything are intractable.
Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012)
PatSwanson50

Hi!

I'm 29, and I am a programmer living in Chicago. I just finished up my MS in Computer Science. I've been a reader of Less Wrong since it was Overcoming Bias, but never got around to posting any comments.

I've been rationality-minded since I was a little kid, criticizing the plots and character actions of stories I read. I was raised Catholic and sent to Sunday school, but it didn't take and eventually my parents relented. Once I went away to college and acquired a real internet connection, I spent a lot of time reading rationality-related blogs and websites. It's been a while, but I'd bet it was through one of those sites that I found Less Wrong.

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