From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 13:57:01 MDT
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> This uncertainty is due to our general lack of knowledge about how to
> build an FAI - you cannot rationally regulate a non-existent field of
> research, because all of the "experts'" guesses are as good as mine or
> yours at this point.
Not really. There is no way for the government to tell the difference;
that is not the same as saying no difference exists.
Incidentally, Hibbard, if I were given to trying to pass regulations,
which I'm not, I'd prohibit the use of your reinforcement architecture,
which is, of course, invariably fatal...
...hence the problem.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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