From: Stathis Papaioannou (stathisp@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2007 - 02:51:29 MST
On 25/11/2007, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps you could explain how an AI which started off with the belief
> > that the aim of life is to obey humans would revise this belief, but
> > an AI with the belief that the aim of life is to take over the world
> > would be immune to such revision.
>
> Those are not *beliefs* any more than apples are electrical charges.
> Type error.
Yes, you're right. The truth of a belief can be decided on the basis
of logic and empirical evidence, whereas the "truth" of a goal or
value cannot.
-- Stathis Papaioannou
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