I hope at least you care if everyone on Earth dies painfully tomorrow. We don’t have any theory that would stop AI from doing that, and any progress toward such a theory would be on topic for the contest.
Sorry, I’m feeling a bit frustrated. It’s as if the decade of LW never happened, and people snap back out of rationality once they go off the dose of Eliezer’s writing. And the mode they snap back to is so painfully boring.
That’s not conventionally considered to be “in the long run”.
We don’t have any theory that would stop AI from doing that
The primary reason is that we don’t have any theory about what a post-singularity AI might or might not do. Doing some pretty basic decision theory focused on the corner cases is not “progress”.
I do care about tomorrow, which is not the long run.
I don’t think we should assume that AIs will have any goals at all, and I rather suspect they will not, in the same way that humans do not, only more so.
I hope at least you care if everyone on Earth dies painfully tomorrow. We don’t have any theory that would stop AI from doing that, and any progress toward such a theory would be on topic for the contest.
Sorry, I’m feeling a bit frustrated. It’s as if the decade of LW never happened, and people snap back out of rationality once they go off the dose of Eliezer’s writing. And the mode they snap back to is so painfully boring.
That’s not conventionally considered to be “in the long run”.
The primary reason is that we don’t have any theory about what a post-singularity AI might or might not do. Doing some pretty basic decision theory focused on the corner cases is not “progress”.
I do care about tomorrow, which is not the long run.
I don’t think we should assume that AIs will have any goals at all, and I rather suspect they will not, in the same way that humans do not, only more so.