The characters are artificial, indeed, but not particularly intelligent ;-)
Care to elaborate a little more?
Care to elaborate a little more?
Like the AI-Box,the show is improvised drama (so is most of reality tv), the show operates on an emotional level as well as a logical level. It has characters, not just plot. The contestants cannot force others to keep them in the home. The could try to engender sympathy or compassion or fear or hatred or try to find and exploit some weakness, some fatal flaw in the other contestants.
Since the post is ultimately about 'transhuman artificial intelligence', focussing on the 'relativity' of the intelligence of the contestants, the show ultimately rewards the contestant with the most intelligence required to survive in the artificial environment.
The contestant only needs to convince others of their right to stay in he house while requiring others to leave.
The AI requires just the opposite of the gate keeper. This is specific to the environment set up in the experiment, and the experiment could probably be set up to let have the gate keepers primary function be to prevent the AI from entering the box'.
The escape from the box has been set up to exercise human fear of a being of greater intelligence exploiting us.
If we do eventually develop a trans-human AI, it's a virtual certainty that it will escape its "box". Whether it would kill us all is unknown. However, it definitely could, and we would be effectively powerless to stop it.
"Reasonable" is a measure of risk tolerance. Since the downside risks associated with trans-human AIs are effectively infinite, fear of those risks is always reasonable.
Corollary: Since the upside risks are also unbounded, greed is also reasonable.
Frankly, though, I'd rather not roll those dice if we can avoid it.
It could also possibly be no more interested in us than we are to the yeast we use to make bread.
Our survival depends on how annoying we are to them ;-)