That observation makes a narrow window valuable: whatever we want preserved must be radiated now, redundantly, and in a form that minds unlike ours can decode with high probability. The useful direction is not “build a grand vault” but “broadcast a self-bootstrapping curriculum until the last switch flips.”
A way to do this without needing to create a formal (“universal language”) alignment curriculum would be to just broadcast a lot of internet data, somehow emphasizing dictionaries (easier to first interpret) and LessWrong text. One way to emphasize would be to send them more times. Maybe include some formalisms that try to indicate the concept of language.
In case we’re already able to radiate arbitrary bitsequences, there might not be any large hurdles to doing this.
A way to do this without needing to create a formal (“universal language”) alignment curriculum would be to just broadcast a lot of internet data, somehow emphasizing dictionaries (easier to first interpret) and LessWrong text. One way to emphasize would be to send them more times. Maybe include some formalisms that try to indicate the concept of language.
In case we’re already able to radiate arbitrary bitsequences, there might not be any large hurdles to doing this.