To be precise, you’re offering an approach to safe Oracle AI rather than Friendly AI.
In a nutshell, what I like about the idea is that you’re explicitly handicapping your AI with a utility function that only cares about its immediate successor rather than its eventual descendants. It’s rather like the example I posed where a UDT agent with an analogously myopic utility function allowed itself to be exploited by a pretty dumb program. This seems a lot more feasible than trying to control an agent that can think strategically about its future iterations.
To expand on my questions, note that in human beings, the sort of creativity that helps us write more efficient algorithms on a given problem is strongly correlated with the sort of creativity that lets people figure out why they’re being asked the specific questions they are. If a bit of meta-gaming comes in handy at any stage, if modeling the world that originated these questions wins (over the alternatives it enumerated at that stage) on criteria 3 even once, then we might be in trouble.
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To be precise, you’re offering an approach to safe Oracle AI rather than Friendly AI.
In a nutshell, what I like about the idea is that you’re explicitly handicapping your AI with a utility function that only cares about its immediate successor rather than its eventual descendants. It’s rather like the example I posed where a UDT agent with an analogously myopic utility function allowed itself to be exploited by a pretty dumb program. This seems a lot more feasible than trying to control an agent that can think strategically about its future iterations.
To expand on my questions, note that in human beings, the sort of creativity that helps us write more efficient algorithms on a given problem is strongly correlated with the sort of creativity that lets people figure out why they’re being asked the specific questions they are. If a bit of meta-gaming comes in handy at any stage, if modeling the world that originated these questions wins (over the alternatives it enumerated at that stage) on criteria 3 even once, then we might be in trouble.