Do you believe that is a good outcome? → If not, do you believe an ASI aligned to you would? → If not, are you expecting an ASI aligned to ‘all of present human culture’? → If not: If it were aligned to Elon Musk in particular, would they really endorse {the lightcone-wide enforcement of a particular culture} post-augmentation? → If so, they in any case do not need to try to promote their preferred views in the near-term for a first decisive AI aligned to themself to be able to cause that.[1]
In most futures I expect, there won’t be a singular “the post-singularity culture”; either eventually something better happens (note the reachable universe is vast enough to harmlessly contain many cultures/spiritualities) or an unaligned decisive AI takes over.
Why do you expect a singular post-singularity culture, unless you are expecting the first decisive AI to be aligned to some evil person who wants that?
I guess that Musk either (1) feigns concern over current politicized topics to gain political power/allies, or (2) is actually concerned, having maybe self-deceived into thinking they care until they actually became an entity which does, and is in any case acting irrationally according to their own values.
I think this is wrong for a lot of reasons.
Do you believe that is a good outcome? → If not, do you believe an ASI aligned to you would? → If not, are you expecting an ASI aligned to ‘all of present human culture’? → If not: If it were aligned to Elon Musk in particular, would they really endorse {the lightcone-wide enforcement of a particular culture} post-augmentation? → If so, they in any case do not need to try to promote their preferred views in the near-term for a first decisive AI aligned to themself to be able to cause that.[1]
In most futures I expect, there won’t be a singular “the post-singularity culture”; either eventually something better happens (note the reachable universe is vast enough to harmlessly contain many cultures/spiritualities) or an unaligned decisive AI takes over.
Why do you expect a singular post-singularity culture, unless you are expecting the first decisive AI to be aligned to some evil person who wants that?
I guess that Musk either (1) feigns concern over current politicized topics to gain political power/allies, or (2) is actually concerned, having maybe self-deceived into thinking they care until they actually became an entity which does, and is in any case acting irrationally according to their own values.
Some of these conditionals (e.g. the first two) are conjunctive, but most are disjunctive, by the way.