Re: The engine of intelligence. (was, Loosemore's Collected Writings on SL4 - Pa

From: Michael Vassar (michaelvassar@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 21:16:22 MDT


>If you want the intelligence to be capable of self-modification, you also
>need a reflective decision theory.

Do you need reflective decision theory before it will be capable of
self-modification? It seems more likely to me that you need reflective
decision theory before it will be capable of *safe* self modification.
Otherwise there would be no reason to worry about a hard take off.



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