From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2007 - 11:30:09 MST
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:49:39AM -0800, Harry Chesley wrote:
> First, to be useful, FAI needs to be bullet-proof, with no way for the AI
> to circumvent it.
If you're talking about circumvention, you've already missed the
point. An FA no more tries to circumvent its friendliness then you
have a deep-seated desire to want to slaughter babxes.
> This equates to writing a bug-free program, which we all know is
> next to impossible.
I don't know who "we all" is there, but they are wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma
It's hard, and requires concerted effort, but when was the last time
you hard of a bug in an air traffic control program? It happens,
but it's an extremely rare thing isolated to *particular* ATC
programs; most of them are basically bug free. Same with the space
shuttle. Same with most hospital equipment.
> Second, I believe there are other ways to achieve the same goal,
> rendering FAI an unnecessary and onerous burden. These include
> separating input from output, and separating intellect from
> motivation. In the former, you just don't supply any output
> channels except ones that can be monitored and edited.
OMFG has that topic been done to death. Read the archives on AI
boxing.
> This slows things down tremendously, but is much safer.
No, it's not.
> To save everyone from having to read more postings, let me
> pre-supply some of the replies I'm sure to get to this message:
>
> * Read the literature!
>
[snip]
>
> I don't disagree with any of those, actually, but I'm only likely
> to be convinced I'm wrong by arguments that address my points
> directly.
Why should we go to the effort of doing your research for you? How
arrogant is *that*?
-Robin
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