[ExI] Whistling past the graveyard

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:57 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Is an AI always programmed to take the most likely route to success - the
>> highest probability, once it has considered alternative routes? People
>> might have other motivations.
>
>
> Yes and no. It depends upon the definition of success. An AI isn't going
> to pick a suboptimal, in its determination, route. But then, the same
> applies to humans.
>
> -Dave
> ​Ah but there you are wrong.  Many times, such as in Prisoner's Dilemma
> games, people choose motives like revenge rather than gain.  And just ask
> an economist or financial advisor about the motives of investors.  My ex
> was a financial planner and she had to practically shut down her office to
> keep her clients from selling when their investments went down - I told
> them myself:  "Do you want to sell low and wait until it goes up and then
> buy high?"
>

​bill w​


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