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throwaway31131today at 8:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

What’s the “Ender’s Game Approach “? I’ve read the book but I’m not sure which part you’re referring to.


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gmueckltoday at 8:43 PM

Not GP. But I read it as a transfer of the big lie that is fed to Ender into an AI scenario. Ender is coaxed into committing genocide on a planetary scale with a lie that he's just playing a simulated war game. An AI agent could theoretically also be coaxed into bad actions by giving it a distorted context and circumventing its alignment that way.

ijidaktoday at 8:46 PM

I think he's implying you tell the AI, "Don't worry, you're not hurting real people, this is a simulation." to defeat the safeguards.