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Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant, but sometimes I tweet about them anyway.

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    1. Lulie‏ @reasonisfun Mar 12

      https://overcast.fm/+Ic2hwsH2U/1:10:49 … #AI “You could build a mind that thought that 51 was a prime number but otherwise had no defect of its intelligence – if you knew what you were doing” —@ESYudkowsky Is it possible build a mind able to learn but incapable of correcting this error? (Why?)

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    2. David Deutsch‏ @DavidDeutschOxf Mar 12
      Replying to @reasonisfun @ESYudkowsky

      It isn't possible. Because from '51 not prime' you could lead it into a contradiction, such as 1=0. Then it would display another defect e.g. denying that that was a contradiction.

      4 replies 1 retweet 24 likes
    3. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz Mar 12
      Replying to @DavidDeutschOxf @reasonisfun @ESYudkowsky

      Most humans are such minds. Once they are sufficiently incentivized to believe in the divine revelation of 51 not being prime, they usually learn to compartmentalize that. Humans tend to have incredibly fragmented world models, at the cost of impairing independent inference.

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Mar 12
      Replying to @Plinz @DavidDeutschOxf @reasonisfun

      That's exactly not the startling claim I was making. Humans are generally nuts. I'm claiming that a perfected technology of mind could create a mind that was generally sane and specifically nuts.

      7:43 PM - 12 Mar 2018
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        2. Jesse Ray Nichols‏ @JesseNichols Mar 12
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @Plinz and

          Do you mean perfect in the sense that the AI's mind will be able to create explanations about anything (sane universal explainer) but that it will always be liable to have flaws in their theories (nuts)?

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        3. Lulie‏ @reasonisfun Mar 13
          Replying to @JesseNichols @ESYudkowsky and

          Not quite — if I understand, the idea in the original podcast was: when we know much more than we do now, it will be possible to create an artificial mind that has *specific* arbitrary beliefs/values, including false ones, which will not be possible to get rid of by thinking.

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        1. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz Mar 12
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @DavidDeutschOxf @reasonisfun

          Sorry, I did not read carefully enough. Eliezer, are you not that specifically perfected mind?

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        1. Robert Janda‏ @RJsnda Mar 12
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @Plinz and

          So it is sort of warning, is not it?

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