The one thing that actually has seemed to raise credibility, is famous people associating with the organization, like Peter Thiel funding us, or Ray Kurzweil on the Board.
Well, yeah.
You spend a lot of your time worrying about how to get an AI to operate within the interests of lesser beings. You also seem to spend a certain amount of time laying out Schelling fences around “dark side tactics”. It seems to me that these are closely related processes.
As you have said, “people are crazy, the world is mad”. We are not operating with a population of rational decision makers. Even the subset of the population that appears to be rational decision makers often aren’t; signaling rationality convincingly to other non-rational agents is often easier than actually being rational.
It seems that often, the things that you label “dark side” tactics are the only tools available for rational beings to extract resources out of non-rational animals, even if those resources are to be used explicitly for the non-rational animals’ benefit. (I’ll leave it for one of the Reactionaries to present the argument that you shouldn’t bother worrying about their benefit; I happen to share most of your ethical goals, so I doubt I could do the argument justice.)
Over the past five years, have you found that it’s become easier to navigate the wider social arena under your own rules, or are your goals and assertions still running into the same credibility problems? (I’m hoping it’s the former, as I could use a hopeful glimmer, but reality is what it is and I will deal with it regardless.)
Well, yeah.
You spend a lot of your time worrying about how to get an AI to operate within the interests of lesser beings. You also seem to spend a certain amount of time laying out Schelling fences around “dark side tactics”. It seems to me that these are closely related processes.
As you have said, “people are crazy, the world is mad”. We are not operating with a population of rational decision makers. Even the subset of the population that appears to be rational decision makers often aren’t; signaling rationality convincingly to other non-rational agents is often easier than actually being rational.
It seems that often, the things that you label “dark side” tactics are the only tools available for rational beings to extract resources out of non-rational animals, even if those resources are to be used explicitly for the non-rational animals’ benefit. (I’ll leave it for one of the Reactionaries to present the argument that you shouldn’t bother worrying about their benefit; I happen to share most of your ethical goals, so I doubt I could do the argument justice.)
Over the past five years, have you found that it’s become easier to navigate the wider social arena under your own rules, or are your goals and assertions still running into the same credibility problems? (I’m hoping it’s the former, as I could use a hopeful glimmer, but reality is what it is and I will deal with it regardless.)