My knee-jerk reaction here is “have you tried asking a five year old?”. Spelling it out in more words: for most of these questions there is an obvious Right Thing To Do. Say true things, spread true important things, don’t lie or strategically hide your views, don’t accelerate capabilities, don’t found capabilities companies, don’t bullshit. Just normal five-year-old level ethics.
And look, I am explicitly on the record saying Value Judgements Are Usually Bullshit and Human Values ≠ Goodness and just generally opposing mainstream morality. But even I can look at the track record of EA and AI Safety and say “look guys, you have not been outperforming the Obvious Right Thing To Do with respect to AI, you should stop with the gigabrain takes and just do the Obvious Right Things”.
(Also, my opposition to mainstream morality diverges from normal five-year-old level ethics in basically the opposite direction from gigabrain EA/AI safety takes. Compared to the five-year-old, I lean even more heavily toward saying true important things, and even less toward leading Molochian parades in exchange for nominal authority.)
My knee-jerk reaction here is “have you tried asking a five year old?”. Spelling it out in more words: for most of these questions there is an obvious Right Thing To Do. Say true things, spread true important things, don’t lie or strategically hide your views, don’t accelerate capabilities, don’t found capabilities companies, don’t bullshit. Just normal five-year-old level ethics.
And look, I am explicitly on the record saying Value Judgements Are Usually Bullshit and Human Values ≠ Goodness and just generally opposing mainstream morality. But even I can look at the track record of EA and AI Safety and say “look guys, you have not been outperforming the Obvious Right Thing To Do with respect to AI, you should stop with the gigabrain takes and just do the Obvious Right Things”.
(Also, my opposition to mainstream morality diverges from normal five-year-old level ethics in basically the opposite direction from gigabrain EA/AI safety takes. Compared to the five-year-old, I lean even more heavily toward saying true important things, and even less toward leading Molochian parades in exchange for nominal authority.)