That’s a good point, but aside from not having the luxury of a long arc, I’m also worried about asymmetric weapons coming online soon that will work in favor of bad ideas instead of good ones, namely AI assisted persuasion and value lock-in. Basically, good ideas should keep their hosts uncertain and probably unwilling to lock in their own values and beliefs or use superintelligent AI to essentially hack other people’s minds, but people under the influence of bad ideas probably won’t have such compunctions.
ETA: Also, some of the existing weapons are already asymmetric in favor of bad ideas. Namely the more moral certainty you have, the more you’re willing to use social pressure / physical coercion to spread your views. This could partly explain why moral uncertainty is so rare.
That’s a good point, but aside from not having the luxury of a long arc, I’m also worried about asymmetric weapons coming online soon that will work in favor of bad ideas instead of good ones, namely AI assisted persuasion and value lock-in. Basically, good ideas should keep their hosts uncertain and probably unwilling to lock in their own values and beliefs or use superintelligent AI to essentially hack other people’s minds, but people under the influence of bad ideas probably won’t have such compunctions.
ETA: Also, some of the existing weapons are already asymmetric in favor of bad ideas. Namely the more moral certainty you have, the more you’re willing to use social pressure / physical coercion to spread your views. This could partly explain why moral uncertainty is so rare.