Richard Loosemore:
In fact, if it knew all about its own design (and it would, eventually), it
would check to see just how possible it might be for it to accidentally
convince itself to disobey its prime directive,
But it doesn't have a prime directive, does it? It has large numbers
of constraints affecting its decisions.
I would agree absolutely that emergent stability sounds possible, but
(1) one needs to say much more about the necessary and sufficient
conditions (2) one needs to define Friendliness and specialize to that
case. (And I hope you'd agree with these extra points.)
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