I personally think that all powerful AIs should be controlled by Ryan Greenblatt.
I don’t know the guy, but he seems sane from reading just a little of his writing. Putting him in charge would run a small s-risk (bad outcomes if he turned out to have a negative sadism-empathy balance), but I think that’s unlikely. It would avoid what I think are quite large risks arising from Molochian competition among AGIs and their human masters in an aligned but multipolar scenario.
So: Ryan Greenblatt for god-emperor!
Or whoever else, as long as they don’t self-nominate. Those who seek power probably shouldn’t have it.
This might be termed the Hitchhiker’s Guide political system. They chose the true secret president of the galaxy at random, and the person always hated the job.
A bit offtopic, but #lesswrong has an IRC bot that posts LessWrong posts, and, well, the proposal ended up both more specific and a lot more radical.
I personally think that all powerful AIs should be controlled by Ryan Greenblatt.
I don’t know the guy, but he seems sane from reading just a little of his writing. Putting him in charge would run a small s-risk (bad outcomes if he turned out to have a negative sadism-empathy balance), but I think that’s unlikely. It would avoid what I think are quite large risks arising from Molochian competition among AGIs and their human masters in an aligned but multipolar scenario.
So: Ryan Greenblatt for god-emperor!
Or whoever else, as long as they don’t self-nominate. Those who seek power probably shouldn’t have it.
This might be termed the Hitchhiker’s Guide political system. They chose the true secret president of the galaxy at random, and the person always hated the job.