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> It takes Edgar 54 days to build a swarm taking metallic elements from all sources, including living organisms. But then when instructed not to harm living org
by Filligree 3y ago
> It takes Edgar 54 days to build a swarm taking metallic elements from all sources, including living organisms. But then when instructed not to harm living organisms, it still takes Edgar 54 days to do the same. Extracting metals from humans can't be the most efficient - or even in the top 100 of most efficient, likely - way to get metals. So why would Edgar do that?
Well, it doesn't include decimal points. One of those may be 54.0314 days and the other may be 54.0312 days; obviously the latter is preferable.
- therein 3y agoPerhaps if you have a cost approximation function that's alien to that of a human. Whatever that function is, it must be putting more value to time than a human does so it must have less of it. If this is a machine intelligence with a known lifetime of 52 days, most certainly. Otherwise even something as trivial as saving 23.74$ in fuel spent might be better value gained than the time savings it would expect to achieve.
- Vecr 3y agoI don't think that's valid reasoning, maybe the AI system has near-zero discounting but obviously when a human asks it to do something, the human cares about how long it takes. It's plausible that would get programmed in very early and maybe forgotten about.
- Filligree 3y agoIf I remember correctly, "Do it ASAP" was an explicit part of the prompt at that point.