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Well it's quite difficult to come up with much better rules than Asimov's. HPMOR offers a solution called 'coherent extrapolated volition' – ordering the super

by yreg 2y ago

Well it's quite difficult to come up with much better rules than Asimov's. HPMOR offers a solution called 'coherent extrapolated volition' – ordering the super intelligent machine to not obey the stated rules to the letter, but to act in the spirit of the rules instead. Figure out what the authors of the rules would have wished for, even though they failed to put it in writing. We are debating scifi, of course.

fc417fc802 2y ago
> Figure out what the authors of the rules would have wished for What if the original author was from long ago and doesn't share modern sensibilities? Of course you can compensate when formulating them to some extent, but I imagine there will always be potential issues.