Eliezer: Slightly edited the original post to avoid giving away what my readers have finally convinced me is, in fact, an undesirable spoiler. I also hope you didn’t mind my removing the mention of FAI, because I feel fairly strongly about not mixing that into the fic. “A fanatic is someone who can’t change their mind and won’t change the subject”; if we can’t shut up about FAI while talking about Harry Potter, we may have a problem.
Working from memory, I believe that when asked about AI in the story, Eliezer said “they say a crackpot is someone who won’t change his mind and won’t change the subject—I endeavor to at least change the subject.” Obviously this is non-binding, but it still seems odd to me that he would go ahead and do the whole thing that he did with the mirror.
If anyone has the exact wording of the no-AI promise, I’d like to examine it.
Eliezer: Slightly edited the original post to avoid giving away what my readers have finally convinced me is, in fact, an undesirable spoiler. I also hope you didn’t mind my removing the mention of FAI, because I feel fairly strongly about not mixing that into the fic. “A fanatic is someone who can’t change their mind and won’t change the subject”; if we can’t shut up about FAI while talking about Harry Potter, we may have a problem.
(http://lesswrong.com/lw/2ab/harry_potter_and_the_methods_of_rationality/22cq)
Working from memory, I believe that when asked about AI in the story, Eliezer said “they say a crackpot is someone who won’t change his mind and won’t change the subject—I endeavor to at least change the subject.” Obviously this is non-binding, but it still seems odd to me that he would go ahead and do the whole thing that he did with the mirror.
He said “Harry will not build an FAI”...
Source?
(Not that I don’t believe you; I’ve just never been able to find where EY says this.)
I think I heard it from him personally at a meet up...