Ask HN: Would Evil AI sound better than Evil Corporations? 1 points by dbajaj 2y ago ↗ HN An out and out evil AI would be more predicable than our evil corporations disguising themselves as the good guys.
[–] PaulHoule 2y ago ↗ Unless it's like one of the adversaries inhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_(novel_series)which use a random number generator to be unpredictable and harder to defeat. See alsohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_gamewhere the "minimax" strategy frequently involves making a random choice. [–] dbajaj 2y ago ↗ A random number generator still has a chance of working out once in a blue moon. Or hell a zero sum game is still better than a negative one.
[–] dbajaj 2y ago ↗ A random number generator still has a chance of working out once in a blue moon. Or hell a zero sum game is still better than a negative one.
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which use a random number generator to be unpredictable and harder to defeat. See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game
where the "minimax" strategy frequently involves making a random choice.