Most of what people call morality is conflict mediation: techniques for taking the conflicting desires of various parties and producing better outcomes for them than war. That’s how I’ve always thought of the alignment problem. The creation of a very very good compromise that almost all of humanity will enjoy.
There’s no obvious best solution to value aggregation/cooperative bargaining, but there are a couple of approaches that’re obviously better than just having an arms race, rushing the work, and producing something awful that’s nowhere near the average human preference.
Most of what people call morality is conflict mediation: techniques for taking the conflicting desires of various parties and producing better outcomes for them than war.
That’s how I’ve always thought of the alignment problem. The creation of a very very good compromise that almost all of humanity will enjoy.
There’s no obvious best solution to value aggregation/cooperative bargaining, but there are a couple of approaches that’re obviously better than just having an arms race, rushing the work, and producing something awful that’s nowhere near the average human preference.