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teolandon on March 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamin...

Paper is just a wrapper for the AI box problem, nothing new. It doesn't even provide a very strong argument for the impossibility of decontamination, just a "proof" by example (not really a proof).

ryan-allen on March 5, 2018 [–]

Here's a link to the AI box problem on Wikipedia for anyone like me who hadn't heard of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box

Also, this reminds me of the premise of the movie Ex Machina (no spoilers!) which is sweet! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/

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