Today's post, Ghosts in the Machine was originally published on 17 June 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

There is a way of thinking about programming a computer that conforms well to human intuitions: telling the computer what to do. The problem is that the computer isn't going to understand you, unless you program the computer to understand. If you are programming an AI, you are not giving instructions to a ghost in the machine; you are creating the ghost.

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