The only thing standing in the way of artificial intelligence is our inability to define natural intelligence to compare it to.
The term "friendly AI" is meaningless until we determine whether a friend is one who maximizes freedom or security for us.
The frustrating thing about your experiment is not that I don't know how you convinced someone to release you, as anyone can be convinced of anything given the correct leverage. It's that I don't know the terms of the exchange, given that some structure had to be made to properly simulate your respective position as an AI in a way that negated the metagaming goal of winning 10 bucks. Was this derived... (read more)
The only thing standing in the way of artificial intelligence is our inability to define natural intelligence to compare it to.
The term "friendly AI" is meaningless until we determine whether a friend is one who maximizes freedom or security for us.
The frustrating thing about your experiment is not that I don't know how you convinced someone to release you, as anyone can be convinced of anything given the correct leverage. It's that I don't know the terms of the exchange, given that some structure had to be made to properly simulate your respective position as an AI in a way that negated the metagaming goal of winning 10 bucks. Was this derived... (read more)