I mostly agree here and with the deep atheism take. Definitely I would not say that competition systematically or always produces goodness. Rather, it can produce goodness and empirically in the case of human evolution it has created things that we would call goodness. This obviously depends on the circumstances of the competition. I think it’s possible that cooperation in general is a fairly large attractor but this cooperation doesn’t have to involve humans nor does it have to correspond in the end to the kind of amortised values we think of as good.
>Rather, it can produce goodness and empirically in the case of human evolution it has created things that we would call goodness.
Hasn’t it produced cooperation and goodness amongst humans who’re of similar power? My intuition pump for AI risk is what humans have done to other beings sharing the planet and the story there is not encouraging.
I mostly agree here and with the deep atheism take. Definitely I would not say that competition systematically or always produces goodness. Rather, it can produce goodness and empirically in the case of human evolution it has created things that we would call goodness. This obviously depends on the circumstances of the competition. I think it’s possible that cooperation in general is a fairly large attractor but this cooperation doesn’t have to involve humans nor does it have to correspond in the end to the kind of amortised values we think of as good.
>Rather, it can produce goodness and empirically in the case of human evolution it has created things that we would call goodness.
Hasn’t it produced cooperation and goodness amongst humans who’re of similar power? My intuition pump for AI risk is what humans have done to other beings sharing the planet and the story there is not encouraging.