From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 21:45:30 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> Will AIs be prey to
> such lexical pranks in their own code re-writing? Scary if so...
Dream along with me; dream of an AI that makes no unnoticed slips; dream
of an AI with code that goes somewhere beyond crystalline error-checking
and beyond stochastics, to a realm where a single slip of the code or
radiation bitflip has no more effect than a pebble dropped into a
waterfall.
Perfection is often too expensive to be attainable, but the true craftsman
is never comfortable in the presence of a known imperfection.
(Slaps Damien on the back.) "Don't worry! I'll handle it!"
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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