And in any case, if you do robustly have this preference, you and those who share your views would be free to hang out with whatever pre-singularity friends want to hang out with you. (You could also maybe swap copies with each other, so your friends could live in your shard of the universe, and you could live in their shard).
But I think you’re undercounting how much people who were actually tailored for you, to fit you perfectly, are compared to our best friends based on merely human selection processes from ancient earth.
It’s not some horrifying dark story that I don’t spend time with my preschool playmates, almost all of whom I haven’t seen in decades, and most of whom have very little in common with me. It’s an amazing fact about our modern world that I’ve mostly moved on to spending time with people from the internet who are much more like me, and who share my interests and priorities, and who are generally a better fit for the life that I’m living.
I still want the best for those former playmates, but by and large we don’t really have strong reasons to spend time together.
So to, I think when we have the option of spending time with people that are selected or designed precisely for our needs, those people will be obviously extremely more compatible with us than anyone who happened to be born in the same generation of pre-singularity earth. There will just be many millions times the selection pressure.
I’ll admit that there are some people who are lifelong best friends with people that they met in preschool. And if it’s their best lives, to continue pal-ing around with each other deep into the Glorious Transhuman Future, then more power to them.
But as a factual prediction, I expect that after 100 years, most people like that mostly won’t be spending their time with each other (unless they very specifically set up systems to keep themselves in the other’s orbit despite the the default forces that would cause them to drift apart).
We will still care about our old friends, at least as much as, and probably more than, I care about my playmates from preschool. But there won’t be very much reason to hang out with them. They’ll have and we’ll have qualitatively more awesome stuff going on.
Insofar as this is my prediction about what happens by default to almost everyone, in a good singularity, I’m quite unbothered by an AGI solving every problem but forcing a 100 year divorce on one generation of marriages, calculated to leave everyone better off.
sounds like the singularity world you’re describing has lost something fundamental that I’d want to preserve! if people reliably grow apart rather than growing together much of the time, then your new configuration has resulted in social organisms dying. ew! I do want more mobility but not so much more mobility than existing networks usually dissolve completely, that’s losing so much of what we’d hope to preserve! consider that your entire philosophy here might be missing a discrete component.
that does not sound like a good singularity.
I think you’re mistaken about that.
And in any case, if you do robustly have this preference, you and those who share your views would be free to hang out with whatever pre-singularity friends want to hang out with you. (You could also maybe swap copies with each other, so your friends could live in your shard of the universe, and you could live in their shard).
But I think you’re undercounting how much people who were actually tailored for you, to fit you perfectly, are compared to our best friends based on merely human selection processes from ancient earth.
It’s not some horrifying dark story that I don’t spend time with my preschool playmates, almost all of whom I haven’t seen in decades, and most of whom have very little in common with me. It’s an amazing fact about our modern world that I’ve mostly moved on to spending time with people from the internet who are much more like me, and who share my interests and priorities, and who are generally a better fit for the life that I’m living.
I still want the best for those former playmates, but by and large we don’t really have strong reasons to spend time together.
So to, I think when we have the option of spending time with people that are selected or designed precisely for our needs, those people will be obviously extremely more compatible with us than anyone who happened to be born in the same generation of pre-singularity earth. There will just be many millions times the selection pressure.
I’ll admit that there are some people who are lifelong best friends with people that they met in preschool. And if it’s their best lives, to continue pal-ing around with each other deep into the Glorious Transhuman Future, then more power to them.
But as a factual prediction, I expect that after 100 years, most people like that mostly won’t be spending their time with each other (unless they very specifically set up systems to keep themselves in the other’s orbit despite the the default forces that would cause them to drift apart).
We will still care about our old friends, at least as much as, and probably more than, I care about my playmates from preschool. But there won’t be very much reason to hang out with them. They’ll have and we’ll have qualitatively more awesome stuff going on.
Insofar as this is my prediction about what happens by default to almost everyone, in a good singularity, I’m quite unbothered by an AGI solving every problem but forcing a 100 year divorce on one generation of marriages, calculated to leave everyone better off.
sounds like the singularity world you’re describing has lost something fundamental that I’d want to preserve! if people reliably grow apart rather than growing together much of the time, then your new configuration has resulted in social organisms dying. ew! I do want more mobility but not so much more mobility than existing networks usually dissolve completely, that’s losing so much of what we’d hope to preserve! consider that your entire philosophy here might be missing a discrete component.
Well, I encourage you to act to preserve what you value, now and through the singularity.
My prediction about what almost all of us would choose, given these options, stands.
Sounds very goodhart-y/wirehead-y in a bad way.