This seems like a pretty good summary of various perspectives. One small thing:
- “Some note that the current US regime raises questions, but please don’t confuse the regime with the state, especially in a context where regime changes are frequent, as in the US”
Point taken, but I would draw attention to the relative continuity in US foreign policy between administrations (with notable exceptions). There’s a reason Ben Rhodes talked about hating the blob. One recent example: both Biden and Trump stood firmly behind Israel even as the global outcry got ever louder. My joke is that if you trained an ASI on US foreign policy over the last 80 years its first act would be to express deranged hatred for Cuba.
I’m curious, where do you stand/which concerns do you give the most weight to? Feel free to link to an article of yours.
Do you think that remark is where the downvotes are coming from? :L
Authoritarianism is mostly a domestic question rather than foreign so I don’t know if that has much bearing. (Though I’d note that foreign policy has also experienced what looks like some movement recently.)
The articles linked in the original comment are three of mine (plus one Drexler). I’d say I’m concerned about all of catastrophic misuse, power entrenchment, gradual disempowerment, and (at some point, probably after we face some amount of those challenges) acute disempowerment/extinction.
This seems like a pretty good summary of various perspectives. One small thing:
- “Some note that the current US regime raises questions, but please don’t confuse the regime with the state, especially in a context where regime changes are frequent, as in the US”
Point taken, but I would draw attention to the relative continuity in US foreign policy between administrations (with notable exceptions). There’s a reason Ben Rhodes talked about hating the blob. One recent example: both Biden and Trump stood firmly behind Israel even as the global outcry got ever louder. My joke is that if you trained an ASI on US foreign policy over the last 80 years its first act would be to express deranged hatred for Cuba.
I’m curious, where do you stand/which concerns do you give the most weight to? Feel free to link to an article of yours.
Do you think that remark is where the downvotes are coming from? :L
Authoritarianism is mostly a domestic question rather than foreign so I don’t know if that has much bearing. (Though I’d note that foreign policy has also experienced what looks like some movement recently.)
The articles linked in the original comment are three of mine (plus one Drexler). I’d say I’m concerned about all of catastrophic misuse, power entrenchment, gradual disempowerment, and (at some point, probably after we face some amount of those challenges) acute disempowerment/extinction.