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Self-improvement races
Most of my readers are probably familiar with the problem of AI safety: If humans could create super-human level artificial intelligence the task of programming it in such a way that it behaves as...
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Some of my readers may have heard of the concept of wireheading: Wireheading is the artificial stimulation of the brain to experience pleasure, usually through the direct stimulation of an individual’s...
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In my last post you learned about wireheading. In this post, I’ll bring to attention a specific example of wireheading: suicide or, as one would call it for robots, self-destruction. What...
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