On a similar note, Yud’s decision theory that hinges on an AI (presumably a Turing Machine) predicting what a human (Turing-Complete at the least) does with 100% accuracy.
remembering how Thiel paid Buterin to drop out of his comp sci course so he spent all of 2018 trying to implement plans for Ethereum that only required that P=NP
@sue_me_please Don't think this reply will properly show up on awful.systems, but I can't resist to sneer.
It amuses me that for a while the LW people saw Musk as a great example, and he just went 'I would solve the control problem by making them human friendly and making the robots have low grip strength. Easy peasy' Amazed that wasn't a crack ping moment for a lot of them.
I remember role playing cops and robbers as a kid. I could point my finger and shout “bang bang I got you” but if my friend didn’t pretend to be mortally wounded and instead just kept running around there’s really nothing I could do.
No control method exists to safely contain the global feedback effects of self-sufficient learning machinery. What if this control problem turns out to be an unsolvable problem?
While I agree this article is TL and I DR it, this is not an abstract. This is a redundant lede and attempted clickbait at that.
Oh wait I just noticed the L and D are swapped. Feel free not to tell me whether that’s a typo or some smarmy lesswrongism.
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