Because most singletons don’t care to make us a part of them?
Alternately, we are. One thing I’d want to know as a singleton is how often the average sapient species makes its ASI aligned to it (so I can better prepare to meet them) I might run a bunch of sims of random likely species trying to solve alignment to make a guess. I’d compress those sims by mostly modeling the relevant minds: alignment researchers. I’d fake everything else for efficiency.
If I were aligned to be nice to sapients, I’d make most of the suffering in those sims fake. If I weren’t, I probably still would, just for efficiency.
This is the form of the simulation argument that makes the most sense to me.
Or, a Singleton tends to make the universe uninhabitable fairly soon after this early point in the habitable era. era.
Cheery thought.
Why aren’t we part of the Singleton, then?
The obvious pessimistic thought is that we are and our successors are locusts/goop/minimally sentient replicators.
Because most singletons don’t care to make us a part of them?
Alternately, we are. One thing I’d want to know as a singleton is how often the average sapient species makes its ASI aligned to it (so I can better prepare to meet them) I might run a bunch of sims of random likely species trying to solve alignment to make a guess. I’d compress those sims by mostly modeling the relevant minds: alignment researchers. I’d fake everything else for efficiency.
If I were aligned to be nice to sapients, I’d make most of the suffering in those sims fake. If I weren’t, I probably still would, just for efficiency.
This is the form of the simulation argument that makes the most sense to me.
As long as c is the speed limit it doesn’t matter that much