Or: “we will be more like trees than like dogs to them.” Seems quite plausible they might be more wisely benevolent towards us than humans are towards trees currently.
But, it seems like an important intuition pump for how they’d be engaging with us and what sort of moral reflection they’d have to be doing.
i.e. on the “bacteria → trees → cats → humans → weakly superhuman LLM → … ??? … → Jupiter Brain that does acausal trades” spectrum of coherent agency and intelligence, it’s not obvious we’re more like Jupiter Brains or like trees.
(somewhere there’s a nice Alex Flint post about how you would try to help a tree if you were vaguely aligned to it)
Or: “we will be more like trees than like dogs to them.” Seems quite plausible they might be more wisely benevolent towards us than humans are towards trees currently.
But, it seems like an important intuition pump for how they’d be engaging with us and what sort of moral reflection they’d have to be doing.
i.e. on the “bacteria → trees → cats → humans → weakly superhuman LLM → … ??? … → Jupiter Brain that does acausal trades” spectrum of coherent agency and intelligence, it’s not obvious we’re more like Jupiter Brains or like trees.
(somewhere there’s a nice Alex Flint post about how you would try to help a tree if you were vaguely aligned to it)