I don’t mean the start as negatively as it sounds and mean to use it just as a base for a proposition following below:
demonstrate our niceness
‘Idk where you got that from’ - given how until today as a society we treat about everything that doesn’t exactly correspond to our narrow egoistic desires.. - ok, that is obviously too cynical; realistically we have to message them: we actually with some regularity try to be nice as long as its in low-cost warm-glow situations and so on—which isn’t nothing.
But given this arguably extreme limit to our niceness: So what could we realistically expect/hope from non-fooled interceptors of our messages?
Maybe we can
warn them about the ASI whose lightcone may soon reach their spacetime location; they better get prepared*
about us—maybe not waste many bytes, maybe? Idk why they’d attribute particular value to our pleas for reconstitution or so. If they’re themselves altruist conscious entities who care about creating positive utility they’ll have discovered ways to create utility far more efficiently than by reconstituting us!?
* Whether 1. would be positive value at all I reckon essentially depends on whether interceptor has higher probability to be ‘nice’/more positive utility-generating than the ASI we’ll leave behind. No immediate clue what the odds here are.
I don’t mean the start as negatively as it sounds and mean to use it just as a base for a proposition following below:
‘Idk where you got that from’ - given how until today as a society we treat about everything that doesn’t exactly correspond to our narrow egoistic desires.. - ok, that is obviously too cynical; realistically we have to message them: we actually with some regularity try to be nice as long as its in low-cost warm-glow situations and so on—which isn’t nothing.
But given this arguably extreme limit to our niceness: So what could we realistically expect/hope from non-fooled interceptors of our messages?
Maybe we can
warn them about the ASI whose lightcone may soon reach their spacetime location; they better get prepared*
about us—maybe not waste many bytes, maybe? Idk why they’d attribute particular value to our pleas for reconstitution or so. If they’re themselves altruist conscious entities who care about creating positive utility they’ll have discovered ways to create utility far more efficiently than by reconstituting us!?
* Whether 1. would be positive value at all I reckon essentially depends on whether interceptor has higher probability to be ‘nice’/more positive utility-generating than the ASI we’ll leave behind. No immediate clue what the odds here are.
Happy to we wrong in any of this—am I?