I shall attempt to guess the teacher’s passidea: “the real problem” is that the AI can’t perform any computation, because that would consume energy and emit heat. Oh, and gravity and electromagnetic waves, and so on. In fact, not computing is equally well a choice which affects things outside the box.
...that’s not even the real problem...
You can have my points if you tell us what is. I didn’t want a catgirl anyway.
I shall attempt to guess the teacher’s passidea: “the real problem” is that the AI can’t perform any computation, because that would consume energy and emit heat. Oh, and gravity and electromagnetic waves, and so on. In fact, not computing is equally well a choice which affects things outside the box.
Yup. To be exact, “affect” is a magical category relative to the irrevocably entangled actual universe.
Edit: Looks like I actually wrote this one up, in Dreams of Friendliness.
It’s the first horn of the dilemma. The second horn is the AI Box failure mode.