Agreed that there’s a whole mess of mistakes that can result from anthropomorphizing (thank ye hairy gods for spell check) the AI, but I still think this style of post is useful. If we can come up with a fool-proof way of safely extracting information from a malevolent genie, then we are probably pretty close to a way of safely extracting information from a genie that we’re unsure of the friendliness of.
Agreed that there’s a whole mess of mistakes that can result from anthropomorphizing (thank ye hairy gods for spell check) the AI, but I still think this style of post is useful. If we can come up with a fool-proof way of safely extracting information from a malevolent genie, then we are probably pretty close to a way of safely extracting information from a genie that we’re unsure of the friendliness of.