AI Alignment and Recognition
Let’s suppose we succeed in aligning a super-intelligence. We should expect that the super-intelligence will be able to provide a pretty good estimate of how impactful various people’s actions were. So maybe there are some people toiling away on AI Safety who feel sad that their efforts aren’t being recognised. I guess what I’m saying is that if we succeed you will be. I’m hoping that at least some people will find this encouraging.
Is that like when Dr. Who said in nine hundred years he’s never met anyone who wasn’t important
I think most people can make a difference if they really want to and if they’re willing to set aside their ego and self-interest[1]. Of course, this would probably require a lot of hard work and some painful admissions about their own zone of competence.
I don’t mean to imply that I am completely successful in this myself.