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In real-world AI, they tend to go for minmaxing, which avoids such absurdities. Minmaxing says "don't torture people, your dust speck has literally been defined
by davidgerard 12y ago
In real-world AI, they tend to go for minmaxing, which avoids such absurdities. Minmaxing says "don't torture people, your dust speck has literally been defined to be insignificant."
- MichaelGG 12y agoOk so now instead of one person being tortured for 50 years vs 3^^^3 people with dust specks, let's pose a new question: 7 trillion people tortured for 50 years vs 3^^^3 people with 7 trillion dust specks. Does that make the flaw more obvious? You can't round before multiplying. What am I misunderstanding?
- davidgerard 12y agoThat in real-life AI, they don't use simplistic utilitarianism. You're dodging the core of the problem, as stated above: "However, when pushed too far, those tools tend to break down—but the rationalist answer to that breakdown is all too often to embrace the model and discount the reality." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9204442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9204442 Just because you love your model doesn't make its conclusions at extremes true.