First of all, there might exist cases when a god with different values is preferable to the current world state (e.g. if the world is clearly heading towards self-destruction which would terrify even the god). Additionally, I doubt that the theme of gaining power and fixing the world recurs just through ratfic and not through fiction whose authors display some bias which I cannot describe more precisely than “finding it hard to restrain themselves.” Finally, Max Harms has been trying to construct an agent whose sole goal is being corrigible and even defined power for the agent to optimize in a way which I suspect to be transformable into the Natural Abstract Goodness.
First of all, there might exist cases when a god with different values is preferable to the current world state (e.g. if the world is clearly heading towards self-destruction which would terrify even the god).
Sure. Maybe you misunderstood me. I didn’t write this as an endorsement of the “even deeper atheism” view.
First of all, there might exist cases when a god with different values is preferable to the current world state (e.g. if the world is clearly heading towards self-destruction which would terrify even the god).
It still seems like this is much more prevalent in ratfic. E.g., compare how much of it you see in the top 10 ratfic works vs IDK top 10 generic high fantasy or top 10 post-human scifi works.
First of all, there might exist cases when a god with different values is preferable to the current world state (e.g. if the world is clearly heading towards self-destruction which would terrify even the god). Additionally, I doubt that the theme of gaining power and fixing the world recurs just through ratfic and not through fiction whose authors display some bias which I cannot describe more precisely than “finding it hard to restrain themselves.” Finally, Max Harms has been trying to construct an agent whose sole goal is being corrigible and even defined power for the agent to optimize in a way which I suspect to be transformable into the Natural Abstract Goodness.
Sure. Maybe you misunderstood me. I didn’t write this as an endorsement of the “even deeper atheism” view.
Sure, it’s not an exclusively ratfic issue. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodhoodSeeker
It still seems like this is much more prevalent in ratfic. E.g., compare how much of it you see in the top 10 ratfic works vs IDK top 10 generic high fantasy or top 10 post-human scifi works.