t kills everyone, burns the cosmic commons to whatever extent necessary to eliminate any potential threat and then it goes about turning whatever is left into paperclips.
That’s where Clippy might fail at viability—unless it’s the only maximizer around, that “kill everyone” strategy might catch the notice of entities capable of stopping it—entities that wouldn’t move against a friendlier AI.
A while ago, there was some discussion of AIs which cooperated by sharing permission to view source code. Did that discussion come to any conclusions?
Assuming it’s possible to verify that the real source code is being seen, I don’t think a paper clipper isn’t going to get very far unless the other AIs also happen to be paper clippers.
That’s where Clippy might fail at viability—unless it’s the only maximizer around, that “kill everyone” strategy might catch the notice of entities capable of stopping it—entities that wouldn’t move against a friendlier AI.
An earth originating paperclipper that gets squashed by other super intelligences from somewhere else still is very bad for humans.
Though I don’t see why a paperclipper couldn’t compromise and cooperate with competing super intelligences as well as other super intelligences with different goals. If other AIs are a problem for Clippy, they are also a problem for AIs that are Friendly towards humans, but not neccesarily friendly towards alien super intelligences.
That’s where Clippy might fail at viability—unless it’s the only maximizer around, that “kill everyone” strategy might catch the notice of entities capable of stopping it—entities that wouldn’t move against a friendlier AI.
Intended to be a illustration of how Clippy can do completely obvious things that don’t happen to be stupid, not a coded obligation. Clippy will of course do whatever is necessary to gain more paper-clips. In the (unlikely) event that Clippy finds himself in a situation in which cooperation is a better maximisation strategy than simply outfooming then he will obviously cooperate.
It isn’t absolute not-viability, but the odds are worse for an AI which won’t cooperate unless it sees a good reason to do so than for an AI which cooperates unless it sees a good reason to not cooperate.
but the odds are worse for an AI which won’t cooperate unless it sees a good reason to do so than for an AI which cooperates unless it sees a good reason to not cooperate.
Rationalists win. Rational paperclip maximisers win then make paperclips.
Fair point, but the assumption that it indeed is possible to verify source code is far from proven. There’s too many unknowns in cryptography to make strong claims as to what strategies are possible, let alone which would be successful.
That’s where Clippy might fail at viability—unless it’s the only maximizer around, that “kill everyone” strategy might catch the notice of entities capable of stopping it—entities that wouldn’t move against a friendlier AI.
A while ago, there was some discussion of AIs which cooperated by sharing permission to view source code. Did that discussion come to any conclusions?
Assuming it’s possible to verify that the real source code is being seen, I don’t think a paper clipper isn’t going to get very far unless the other AIs also happen to be paper clippers.
An earth originating paperclipper that gets squashed by other super intelligences from somewhere else still is very bad for humans.
Though I don’t see why a paperclipper couldn’t compromise and cooperate with competing super intelligences as well as other super intelligences with different goals. If other AIs are a problem for Clippy, they are also a problem for AIs that are Friendly towards humans, but not neccesarily friendly towards alien super intelligences.
Intended to be a illustration of how Clippy can do completely obvious things that don’t happen to be stupid, not a coded obligation. Clippy will of course do whatever is necessary to gain more paper-clips. In the (unlikely) event that Clippy finds himself in a situation in which cooperation is a better maximisation strategy than simply outfooming then he will obviously cooperate.
It isn’t absolute not-viability, but the odds are worse for an AI which won’t cooperate unless it sees a good reason to do so than for an AI which cooperates unless it sees a good reason to not cooperate.
Rationalists win. Rational paperclip maximisers win then make paperclips.
Fair point, but the assumption that it indeed is possible to verify source code is far from proven. There’s too many unknowns in cryptography to make strong claims as to what strategies are possible, let alone which would be successful.
And we’ve got to assume AIs would be awfully good at steganography.