OK, I will refrain from continuing this thread beyond this reply, but I would like to more fully expound on this idea before I go. I think such comparisons are useful and important because the list of plausible candidates for AI overlordship is actually quite small, so their personalities and politics can be meaningfully discussed in this context. This list includes the handful of frontier labs and their CEOs; Xi/Xi’s successor/”the CPC”; Musk; Trump; Vance, Rubio, Newsom, and the half dozen other Americans who might plausibly be President 2028-32; the “US”… and beyond that, it rapidly diffuses out into much larger collectives such as “The Internet”, “humanity”, “the noosphere”—or banal extinction. (Incidentally, though, I do agree that Putin is barely worth talking about because Russia’s chances of being first to AGI are ~0%). People who attain outsized political and business success tend to be much more “odd” than the population average, it is genuinely difficult to explain much of what is happening in both domestic politics and geopolitics without accounting for their psychological quirks, and I think it is very plausible that the impact of these individual personality factors would if anything be magnified to new extremes were they to be given the opportunity to emanate their CEV across all of humanity.
OK, I will refrain from continuing this thread beyond this reply, but I would like to more fully expound on this idea before I go. I think such comparisons are useful and important because the list of plausible candidates for AI overlordship is actually quite small, so their personalities and politics can be meaningfully discussed in this context. This list includes the handful of frontier labs and their CEOs; Xi/Xi’s successor/”the CPC”; Musk; Trump; Vance, Rubio, Newsom, and the half dozen other Americans who might plausibly be President 2028-32; the “US”… and beyond that, it rapidly diffuses out into much larger collectives such as “The Internet”, “humanity”, “the noosphere”—or banal extinction. (Incidentally, though, I do agree that Putin is barely worth talking about because Russia’s chances of being first to AGI are ~0%). People who attain outsized political and business success tend to be much more “odd” than the population average, it is genuinely difficult to explain much of what is happening in both domestic politics and geopolitics without accounting for their psychological quirks, and I think it is very plausible that the impact of these individual personality factors would if anything be magnified to new extremes were they to be given the opportunity to emanate their CEV across all of humanity.