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Why AIs should be unreliable 03/14/26(Sat)18:25:14 No.64970557

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Why AIs should be unreliable Anonymous 03/14/26(Sat)18:25:14 No.64970557

...or why shaky solutions are superior to perfect ones.

An anon rebutted my suggestion that cold air turbulence could cause a certain refueller collision with a few points but the thread was archived before I could respond and I think this is interesting to AI weapon autists like myself.

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>It's much more likely that it was night and they were flying the same ground track in opposite directions at the same altitude (whoopsie!). GPS+INS+autopilot keeps them within a few dozen yards of the same centerline while altimetry error results in one being a few feet higher than the other. ~800 knots of closure shears a wingtip off one aircraft and the stab tip off the other.

I concede that point I guess, I'm no expert on turbulence or in-flight refuelling (more than the average normie but not on this board where the bar is higher) but I was struck by anon's point about the same flight route being used for repeated operations causing a scheduling error to cause a collision.

My expertise is in agent systems, I've long held the view that rigid AIs were unreliable and error prone to traps, dead-ends and loops when encountering environmental obstacles even slightly outside their domain knowledge.
My solution was always to include a stochastic element to every decision where 1-2% of the time, they'd make the wrong choice.

If two robotic agents were trying to use a restricted passage at the same time, reliable agents stuck in a loop bashing heads and chaotic ones can do something random instead, inadvertently yielding the passage to the other robot and ensuring they can get through next.
In tournaments in my masters program, my agents using this kind of chaotic error were far more successful than naively perfectly rational agents they faced.

I think autopilots should reduce the accuracy of their navigation for roughly this reason. Two planes flying the same route a few hundred metres apart is scary but two planes flying the same route with cm accuracy is fatal.