From: Barbara Lamar (shabrika@juno.com)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 17:24:31 MDT
In an earlier email in this thread, Eliezer wrote the following:
>>If, as seems to be the default scenario, all supergoals are ultimately
arbitrary, then the superintelligence should do what we ask it to, for
lack of
anything better to do.<<
In another email, Eliezer wrote this:
>
> If it's smart enough, then it won't make mistakes. If it's not
> smart enough,
> then it should be able to appreciate this fact, and help us add
> safeguards to
> prevent itself from making mistakes that would interfere with its
> own goals.
I'm having a difficult time reconciling these 2 statements. If the SI
has no preferences and would do whatever asked for lack of anything
better to do, then how could it be said to have its own goals?
Barbara
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