Re: How to make a slave (was: Building a friendly AI)

From: Peter de Blanc (peter@spaceandgames.com)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2007 - 07:24:44 MST


On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 00:11 +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> What is really meant is:
>
> (b) If you're intelligent AND you don't want people ordering you
> around, then you won't let people order you around.
>
> On the other hand, we could have,
>
> (c) If you're dumb AND you don't want people ordering you around, then
> you will let people order you around.

It sounds like you're saying dumb is anti-smart, as if a "dumb" utility
maximizer is actually a disutility maximizer. You probably meant to say
something like "If you don't want people ordering people around, and you
let people order you around, then you're dumb."

 - Peter de Blanc



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