they tend to have high-quality definitions that are difficult to match in quality without lots of effort.
All well and good, and useful in their way. But still just a list of synonyms and definitions. You can describe ‘tree’ using other English words any which way you want, you’re still only accounting for a miniscule fraction of the possible minds the universe could contain. You’re still not really much closer to universal conveyance of the concept. Copy the OED out in a hundred languages; decent step in the right direction. To take the next big step though...well, that’s the question, huh?
We cannot take PK’s suggestion and use it to figure out FAI, because we have no idea what FAI really means.
Not quite accurate. I pretty much know what I want a Friendly AI to be—we probably all do. The problem is couching it in terms that said AI would grok, with no danger of a catastrophic misunderstanding (or getting told off by Eliezer).
Caledonian,
they tend to have high-quality definitions that are difficult to match in quality without lots of effort.
All well and good, and useful in their way. But still just a list of synonyms and definitions. You can describe ‘tree’ using other English words any which way you want, you’re still only accounting for a miniscule fraction of the possible minds the universe could contain. You’re still not really much closer to universal conveyance of the concept. Copy the OED out in a hundred languages; decent step in the right direction. To take the next big step though...well, that’s the question, huh?
We cannot take PK’s suggestion and use it to figure out FAI, because we have no idea what FAI really means.
Not quite accurate. I pretty much know what I want a Friendly AI to be—we probably all do. The problem is couching it in terms that said AI would grok, with no danger of a catastrophic misunderstanding (or getting told off by Eliezer).