Six Dimensions of Operational Adequacy in AGI Projects
📖 Description
| | | --- | | **Editor's note:** The following is a lightly edited copy of a document written by Eliezer Yudkowsky in November 2017. Since this is a snapshot of Eliezer's thinking at a specific time, we've sprinkled reminders throughout that this is from 2017.A background note:It's often the case that people are slow to abandon obsolete playbooks in response to a novel challenge. And AGI is certainly a very novel challenge.Italian general Luigi Cadorna offers a memorable historical example. In the Isonzo Offensive of World War I, Cadorna lost hundreds of thousands of men in futile frontal assaults against enemy trenches defended by barbed wire and machine guns. As morale plummeted and desertions became epidemic, Cadorna began executing his own soldiers en masse, in an attempt to cure the rest of their "cowardice." The offensive continued for *2.5 years*.Cadorna made many mistakes, but foremost among them was his refusal to recognize that this war was fundamentally unlike those tha...
📊 Game Impacts
| Variable | Change | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Research | +5 | Always |
| Vibey Doom | +5 | Always |
| Ethics Risk | -5 | Always |
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