On 09/03/2008 05:52 PM, Terren Suydam wrote:
I'm talking about a situation where humans must interact with the FAI without knowledge in advance about whether it is Friendly or not. Is there a test we can devise to make certain that it is?
This seems extremely unlikely. Consider that any set of interactions you have with a machine you deem friendly could have been with a genuinely friendly machine or with an unfriendly machine running an emulation of a friendly machine in an internal sandbox, with the unfriendly machine acting as man in the middle.
If you have only ever interacted with party B, how could you determine if party B is relaying your questions to party C and returning party C's responses to you or interacting with you directly -- given that all real-world solutions like timing responses against expected response times and trying to check for outgoing messages are not possible? Unless you understood party B's programming perfectly and had absolute control over its operation, you could not. And if you understood its programming that well, you wouldn't have to interact with it to determine if it is friendly or not.
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