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My wording is wrong, because it sounds like I'm saying that Bentham is adopting the policy ad hoc. A better way to state this is that Bentham starts out as an agent that does not g…

Yes, the point of the GP comment is exactly this, if Bentham becomes an agent that goes for C, he also explicitly discourages the mugger from being an agent that would cut off thei…

Do we want to talk about a hypothetical world where deontology was the underlying moral principle? Where, for example, a large agency in charge of approving vaccines decided to del…

I've been studying the language for a while, and recently made the switch to Japanese-Japanese dictionaries, after using EDICT for a long time. This has highlighted some reservatio…

Maybe being shocked means that the person talking about the subject is misrepresenting it, because they themselves don't understand the arguments and are inadvertently projecting. …

I agree with a lesser form (timescale on which the AI self improves is probably going to be long enough for humans to deal with it) of your first argument, but I'm confused at how,…

Have you ever read The Checklist Manifesto [0]? I may be reading too much into this post, but the lessons you learned from this interview process have frighteningly close parallels…

Even antivaxxers have people more patient and more understanding of their opponents actually debunking their object level thinking. They say that vaccines cause autism? We say that…

You seem to be implying that intentional slowing is MIRI's official stance, without any showing support. Given that the original response was in response to the specific accusation…

This seems as if it is conflating the worry that nuclear bombs would ignite the atmosphere with supersonic travel. Who predicted this?

I'm afraid of making a middlebrow dismissal but I'm going to post it anyway, in hopes that someone just skimming would not be mislead. The question is what Michael Jordan thinks of…

> Honestly asking, why would they? I dont see the obvious answer So, your intuition is right in a sense and wrong in a sense. You are right in that AI systems probably won't really…

By 'upgrade everything from human secure' I meant that some targets aren't necessarily appealing to human targets but would be for AI targets. For example, for the vast majority of…

The "more to it" is "if the AI is much faster at thinking than humans, then even humans in the observe/decide/act are not secure". AI systems having bugs also imply that protection…

A typical example, which I don't really like, is that once it gains some insight into biology that we don't have (a much faster way of figuring out how protein folding works). It c…

Er, sorry for giving the impression that it'd be a supervillain. My intention was to indicate that it'd be a weird intelligence, and that by default weird intelligences don't do wh…

Smart is just a shorthand for a complicated series of lower level actions consisting of domain knowledge, raw computational speed and other things yes. I don't think we're really d…

Note: The not ELI5 version is Nick Bostrum's Superintelligence , a lot of what follows derives from my idiosyncratic understanding of Tim Urban's (waitbutwhy) summary of the situat…

There are some skills in physics which are sort of foreign to the math method of problem solving. (Speaking as a physics major) For example, picking a nice reference frame in simpl…

One approach that I learned was to use your fingers to underline the current line that you're reading, going at a "normal" speed when you're tired and then trying to "drag" your ey…

I'm currently having a failure of imagination here, but how would you social engineer a password manager? The tricks I'm thinking of involve fooling the user into thinking a site i…

For those interested, guild wars is the game, and the process is covered below in the 'Your Computer is broken' section: http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/whose-bug-is-this-anyway HN…

I was also concerned about this issue, and have instead taken a nice medium path: After changing a password, I would try to log into the service at approximately the same intervals…