Re: My attempt at a general technical definition of 'Friendliness'

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2005 - 08:38:00 MST


Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> I would be curious to see Eliezer's take on this "definition" of
> friendliness.

Complete trash. Either Geddes didn't read "A Technical Explanation of
Technical Explanation", or he missed the point so completely that he might
as well not have.

> If you gave it to him using a term other than
> "friendliness", would he even recognize it as describing the same thing
> that he frequently talks about?

No.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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