Hi Joshua, Eliezer and I aired our disagreements in a long series of long series of emails on the SL4 list several years ago. As each of us understands the other's views fairly well now, I don't think either of us has interest in taking time to recapitulate the debate!
It's true that those old emails probably make irritating reading, because they contain a lot of boring yakking as well as useful content ... but neither Eli nor I really has time to go back now and clean them up into a beautiful literary dialogue ;-) To very briefly address the "guaranteed Friendly AI" question that you mention: I do think that creating a provably Friendly AI (as Eli seeks to do) is an incredibly hard problem, but I don't claim to know for sure that it's impossible. I think it's nifty that someone is working on this problem; but I choose to focus my attention on the merely-extremely-difficult problem of creating an AGI that looks extremely likely to be Friendly.... Eliezer considers my approach too risky in terms of the odds of accidentally creating a nasty AI; I consider his approach to have an overly high risk of delaying the advent of Friendly AI so long that some other nasty danger wrecks humanity before it happens... -- Ben G On 5/30/07, Joshua Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have disagreements with [Eliezer] on many essential points Ben, I'd be fascinated to see your disagreements elucidated. (I recall reading about a difference of opinion is on whether guaranteed Friendly AI is feasible. I'd like to see that explained in detail, together with other points of disagreement) If you've already written this up, perhaps I just missed the relevant articles, so could you send a pointer. Thanks, Joshua ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&;
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