Yudowsky claims to have played the game several times, and won most of them. One of the "rules" is that nobody is allowed to talk about how he won. He no longer plays the game with anyone. More info here:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment#The_claimsPersonally, I think he talked about how much good for the world could be done if he was let out, curing disease etc. Because his followers are bound by their identities as rationalist utilitarians, they had no choice but to comply, or deal with massive cognitive dissonance.
OR maybe he went meta and talked about the "infinite" potential positive outcomes of his freindly-AI project vs. a zero cost to them for complying in the AI box experiment, and persuaded them that by choosing to "lie" and say that the AI was persuasive, they are assuring their place in heaven. Like a sort of man-to-man pascals wager.
Either way I'm sure it was some kind of mister-spock style bullshit that would never work on a normal person. Like how the RAND corporation guys decided everyone was a sociopath because they only ever tested game theory on themselves.
You or I would surely just (metaphorically, I know it's not literally allowed) put a drinking bird on the "no" button à la homer simpson, and go to lunch. I believe he calls this "pre-commitment."
EDIT: as an addendum, I would pay hard cash to see derren brown play the game, perhaps with brown as the AI. If yudowsky wants to promote his ideas, he should arrange for brown to persuade a succession of skeptics to let him out, live on late night TV.
Personally, I think he talked about how much good for the world could be done if he was let out, curing disease etc. Because his followers are bound by their identities as rationalist utilitarians, they had no choice but to comply, or deal with massive cognitive dissonance.
OR maybe he went meta and talked about the "infinite" potential positive outcomes of his freindly-AI project vs. a zero cost to them for complying in the AI box experiment, and persuaded them that by choosing to "lie" and say that the AI was persuasive, they are assuring their place in heaven. Like a sort of man-to-man pascals wager.
Either way I'm sure it was some kind of mister-spock style bullshit that would never work on a normal person. Like how the RAND corporation guys decided everyone was a sociopath because they only ever tested game theory on themselves.
You or I would surely just (metaphorically, I know it's not literally allowed) put a drinking bird on the "no" button à la homer simpson, and go to lunch. I believe he calls this "pre-commitment."
EDIT: as an addendum, I would pay hard cash to see derren brown play the game, perhaps with brown as the AI. If yudowsky wants to promote his ideas, he should arrange for brown to persuade a succession of skeptics to let him out, live on late night TV.