“This failure mode concerns the possibility that men and women simply weren’t crafted by evolution to make each other maximally happy, so an AI with an incentive to make everyone happy would just create appealing simulacra of the opposite gender for everyone. Here is my favorite part”
I would not consider this an outright failure mode. I suspect that a majority of people on the planet would prefer this “failure” to their current lives. I also suspect that a very significant portion of people in the UK would prefer it to their current lives.
I think that we will find that as we get into more subtle “FAI Failure modes”, the question as to whether there has been a failure or a success will lose any objective answer. This is because of moral anti-realism and the natural spread of human preferences, beliefs and opinions.
The same argument applies to the “personal fantasy world” failure mode. A lot of people would not count that as a failure.
“This failure mode concerns the possibility that men and women simply weren’t crafted by evolution to make each other maximally happy, so an AI with an incentive to make everyone happy would just create appealing simulacra of the opposite gender for everyone. Here is my favorite part”
I would not consider this an outright failure mode. I suspect that a majority of people on the planet would prefer this “failure” to their current lives. I also suspect that a very significant portion of people in the UK would prefer it to their current lives.
I think that we will find that as we get into more subtle “FAI Failure modes”, the question as to whether there has been a failure or a success will lose any objective answer. This is because of moral anti-realism and the natural spread of human preferences, beliefs and opinions.
The same argument applies to the “personal fantasy world” failure mode. A lot of people would not count that as a failure.
[crossposted from Accelerating future]