Conversations with Tuxedage indicate that substantive prior research on a gatekeeper opponent is a key element of an effective escape strategy. Such research seems to me to violate the spirit of the experiment—the AI will know no more about the researcher than they reveal over the terminal
That’s not quite right. The AI and the researcher may have been interacting on the variety of issues before the AI decided to break out. This is nearly identical to Tuxedage talking to his future opponents on IRC or similar interactive media before they decided to run the experiment.
What I was getting at is that the current setup allows for side-channel methods of getting information on your opponent. (Digging to find their identity, reading their Facebook page, etc.).
While I accept that this interaction could be one of many between the AI and the researcher, this can be simulated in the anonymous case via a ‘I was previously GatekeeperXXX, I’m looking to resume a game with AIYYY’ declaration in the public channel while still preserving the player’s anonymity.
For the basic interaction setup, yes. For a sense of community and for reliable collection of the logs, perhaps not. I’m also not sure how anonymous Omegle makes users to each other and itself.
That’s not quite right. The AI and the researcher may have been interacting on the variety of issues before the AI decided to break out. This is nearly identical to Tuxedage talking to his future opponents on IRC or similar interactive media before they decided to run the experiment.
What I was getting at is that the current setup allows for side-channel methods of getting information on your opponent. (Digging to find their identity, reading their Facebook page, etc.).
While I accept that this interaction could be one of many between the AI and the researcher, this can be simulated in the anonymous case via a ‘I was previously GatekeeperXXX, I’m looking to resume a game with AIYYY’ declaration in the public channel while still preserving the player’s anonymity.
By the way, wouldn’t Omegle with the common interests specified as AIBOX basically do the trick?
For the basic interaction setup, yes. For a sense of community and for reliable collection of the logs, perhaps not. I’m also not sure how anonymous Omegle makes users to each other and itself.