The objection isn’t the liberal/conservative lens. That’s relatively minor, as I said. The objection is the viability of this approach, which I explained afterwards (in the final 4 paragraphs of my comment) and remains unaddressed.
The viability of what approach, exactly? You again seem to be reading something different than what was written.
You said “There is no point in this post where the authors present a sliver of evidence for why it’s possible to maintain the ‘barriers’ and norms that exist in current societies, when the fundamental phase change of the Singularity happens.”
Did we make an argument that it was possible, somewhere, which I didn’t notice writing? Or can I present a conclusion to the piece that might be useful:
”...the question we should be asking now is where [this] view leads, and how it could be achieved.
That is going to include working towards understanding what it means to align AI after embracing this conservative view, and seeing status and power as a feature, not a bug. But we don’t claim to have ‘the’ answer to the question, just thoughts in that direction—so we’d very much appreciate contributions, criticisms, and suggestions on what we should be thinking about, or what you think we are getting wrong.”
The objection isn’t the liberal/conservative lens. That’s relatively minor, as I said. The objection is the viability of this approach, which I explained afterwards (in the final 4 paragraphs of my comment) and remains unaddressed.
The viability of what approach, exactly? You again seem to be reading something different than what was written.
You said “There is no point in this post where the authors present a sliver of evidence for why it’s possible to maintain the ‘barriers’ and norms that exist in current societies, when the fundamental phase change of the Singularity happens.”
Did we make an argument that it was possible, somewhere, which I didn’t notice writing? Or can I present a conclusion to the piece that might be useful:
”...the question we should be asking now is where [this] view leads, and how it could be achieved.
That is going to include working towards understanding what it means to align AI after embracing this conservative view, and seeing status and power as a feature, not a bug. But we don’t claim to have ‘the’ answer to the question, just thoughts in that direction—so we’d very much appreciate contributions, criticisms, and suggestions on what we should be thinking about, or what you think we are getting wrong.”