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Re:Specification gaming examples in AI by andrepd on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:15PM (#18416516)
Absolutely. We're stripping the earth bare of resources, poisoning the air (killing thousands in the process), possibly dooming us to catastrophic environmental failure, and we are doing it to produce ever growing mountains of plastic crap. And we will laugh, and make bank, and rejoice in the great economic growth indicators, all the way to the abyss.

There's a comic strip I saw once: looking at a post-apocaliptic scenario from skyscraper window, one executive turns to the other: "My god! We've brought about the apocalypse!", he replies: "Yes, but for one beautiful moment we created a lot of value for our shareholders.".

Re:Specification gaming examples in AI by kuusisto on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:25PM (#18416611)
Re:Specification gaming examples in AI by andrepd on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:16PM (#18417052)
That's the one! I got the details totally wrong, though :)
Re:Specification gaming examples in AI by laumars on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:11PM (#18417521)
You weren’t that far off. Close enough that someone could find it.