My favourite theodicy is pre-incarnate consent: before we are born, we consent to our existence on both heaven and earth, where the afterlife was offered to us as compensation for any harms suffered on earth.[1]
How this features in your plan:
Create some guys, who may or may not be honourable, selecting for property X (explained below).
Explain to the guys our general plan, i.e. we will try to find if they are honourable and if we think they are we will offer them the deal where they stop x-risk and compensate us with some faction of the lightcone.
Explain the harms they are likely to suffer during this process.
Explain that we (or the post-foom honourable AIs) will try to compensate them for those harms. And what that compensation is likely to be (we won’t be sure at the stage).
If they consent to this gamble, then we (re-)create them and do the general plan.
Unfortunately, some guys might be upset that we pre-created them for this initial deal, so property X is the property of not being upset by this.
My favourite theodicy is pre-incarnate consent: before we are born, we consent to our existence on both heaven and earth, where the afterlife was offered to us as compensation for any harms suffered on earth.[1]
How this features in your plan:
Create some guys, who may or may not be honourable, selecting for property X (explained below).
Explain to the guys our general plan, i.e. we will try to find if they are honourable and if we think they are we will offer them the deal where they stop x-risk and compensate us with some faction of the lightcone.
Explain the harms they are likely to suffer during this process.
Explain that we (or the post-foom honourable AIs) will try to compensate them for those harms. And what that compensation is likely to be (we won’t be sure at the stage).
If they consent to this gamble, then we (re-)create them and do the general plan.
Unfortunately, some guys might be upset that we pre-created them for this initial deal, so property X is the property of not being upset by this.
The Pre-Existence Theodicy (Amos Wollen, Feb 21, 2025)