there is just one attractor, or one default outcome—the one which you call the “colonizer”
If this is true, then alignment is insoluble. But this view doesn’t seem to explain the rapid decay of colonialism after World War 2. Or the fact that mankind worries about animal rights...
I don’t know if worrying about animal rights should count if we simultaneously also do factory farming...
And as for the trends in human rights, democratic inclusion, expansion of welfare states, decline in violence, etc., they are real, but unfortunately they also correlate in time with increasing demand for skilled human labor. In a hypothetical future world where human labor wouldn’t matter anymore because of full automation by superhuman AGI, I fear that these trends could easily reverse (though we may actually become extinct before that takes place).
If this is true, then alignment is insoluble. But this view doesn’t seem to explain the rapid decay of colonialism after World War 2. Or the fact that mankind worries about animal rights...
I don’t know if worrying about animal rights should count if we simultaneously also do factory farming...
And as for the trends in human rights, democratic inclusion, expansion of welfare states, decline in violence, etc., they are real, but unfortunately they also correlate in time with increasing demand for skilled human labor. In a hypothetical future world where human labor wouldn’t matter anymore because of full automation by superhuman AGI, I fear that these trends could easily reverse (though we may actually become extinct before that takes place).