I still don’t think this interpretation makes a lot of sense.
Imagine if you gained the option to live in a bunker. Would you suddenly realize that what happens in the rest of the world no longer matters, at least as far as you’re selfishly concerned, because even if there’s a mega catastrophe, you could always just retreat to your bunker?
Presumably not, because even granting that retreating to a bunker could allow you to survive such a catastrophe (and I don’t see much reason to believe that in the case of an AI omnicide), your quality of life would still substantially decline given the deaths of countless people you know, the collapse of the world economy and infrastructure, and new restrictions on your ability to travel freely and experience the world.
If it didn’t seem like a valuable option to them, presumably they wouldn’t spend a bunch of money and personal involvement (and a bit of bad optics) on having a bunker.
Your points don’t support the claim I’m objecting to. I can consistently hold all of the following beliefs: having a bunker selfishly benefits Sam Altman, a bunker wouldn’t actually help him in a typical omnicidal AI scenario, and even if it did help him survive, Sam Altman would still suffer enormous personal costs from a global AI catastrophe. None of these claims contradict each other, but the latter two directly contradict what I interpreted you to be saying at the end of your post.
I still don’t think this interpretation makes a lot of sense.
Imagine if you gained the option to live in a bunker. Would you suddenly realize that what happens in the rest of the world no longer matters, at least as far as you’re selfishly concerned, because even if there’s a mega catastrophe, you could always just retreat to your bunker?
Presumably not, because even granting that retreating to a bunker could allow you to survive such a catastrophe (and I don’t see much reason to believe that in the case of an AI omnicide), your quality of life would still substantially decline given the deaths of countless people you know, the collapse of the world economy and infrastructure, and new restrictions on your ability to travel freely and experience the world.
If it didn’t seem like a valuable option to them, presumably they wouldn’t spend a bunch of money and personal involvement (and a bit of bad optics) on having a bunker.
Your points don’t support the claim I’m objecting to. I can consistently hold all of the following beliefs: having a bunker selfishly benefits Sam Altman, a bunker wouldn’t actually help him in a typical omnicidal AI scenario, and even if it did help him survive, Sam Altman would still suffer enormous personal costs from a global AI catastrophe. None of these claims contradict each other, but the latter two directly contradict what I interpreted you to be saying at the end of your post.