It seems more likely to me that the Malawi people and everyone else will be killed at some point.
Currently the system still has to consider popular opinion to some degree. Killing all the Malavi people would not be efficient right now. When that incentive disappears enough, I would expect everyone else to get eliminated (All of this assumes incentive aligned AI which I wouldn’t expect). This goes in the direction the author was mentioning that the reason for moral progress is more about which societal structures are efficient not actual “moral” progress”.
If competition between humans persists I would expect the other last humans to disappear as well having to transfer all their power to survive the competition.
It seems more likely to me that the Malawi people and everyone else will be killed at some point.
Currently the system still has to consider popular opinion to some degree. Killing all the Malavi people would not be efficient right now. When that incentive disappears enough, I would expect everyone else to get eliminated (All of this assumes incentive aligned AI which I wouldn’t expect). This goes in the direction the author was mentioning that the reason for moral progress is more about which societal structures are efficient not actual “moral” progress”.
If competition between humans persists I would expect the other last humans to disappear as well having to transfer all their power to survive the competition.