I was not aware of this, thanks for pointing this out! I made a note in the text. I guess this is not an example of “advanced AI with an unfortunately misspecified goal” but rather just an example of the much larger class of “system with an unfortunately misspecified goal”.
I don’t want to write an essay about this, it’s too stupid an incident for anyone to waste time thinking about, but somehow everyone thinks it’s a great example and must be mentioned in every piece on AI risk… Some material: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30739093 https://www.gwern.net/Leprechauns
I was not aware of this, thanks for pointing this out! I made a note in the text. I guess this is not an example of “advanced AI with an unfortunately misspecified goal” but rather just an example of the much larger class of “system with an unfortunately misspecified goal”.
Thanks!