[festivusr]

I enjoyed thinking about the scenario, but I must be missing something. By not revealing the conversations between the gatekeeper and Yudkowsky, the test seems less like a simulation and discussion of a possible future and more like a magic trick.

[jcl]

Agreed. Yudkowsky himself admits that the results are only anecdotal. The only people who can derive any sort of value are the participants.

He has said that the reason he doesn't release transcripts is so that naysayers won't say "I wouldn't have been convinced by that." -- which strikes me as a poor reason, because the naysayers are still saying that, even though they don't know what the argument was. The true effects of the secrecy are to preserve the air of mystery and allow the AI player to use a strategy more than once.