I like that you emphasize and discuss the need for the AI to not believe that it can influence the outside world, and cleanly distinguish this from it actually being able to influence the outside world. I wonder if you can get any of the benefits here without needing the box to actually work (i.e. can you just get the agent to believe it does? and is that enough for some form/degree of benignity?)
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Upvoted for interesting experiments with bounties and comment formatting.
I like that you emphasize and discuss the need for the AI to not believe that it can influence the outside world, and cleanly distinguish this from it actually being able to influence the outside world. I wonder if you can get any of the benefits here without needing the box to actually work (i.e. can you just get the agent to believe it does? and is that enough for some form/degree of benignity?)
I think that I may want to make a more specific reply.