Thanks, this position makes more sense in light of Beyond Astronomical Waste (I guess I have some concept of “a pretty good future” that is fine with something like a bunch of human-descended beings living a happy lives that misses out on the sort of things mentioned in Beyond Astronomical Waste, and “optimal future” which includes those considerations). I buy this as an argument that “we should put more effort into making philosophy work to make the outcome of AI better, because we risk losing large amounts of value” rather than “our efforts to get a pretty good future are doomed unless we make tons of progress on this” or something like that.
I buy this as an argument that “we should put more effort into making philosophy work to make the outcome of AI better, because we risk losing large amounts of value” rather than “our efforts to get a pretty good future are doomed unless we make tons of progress on this” or something like that.
What about the other post I linked, Two Neglected Problems in Human-AI Safety? A lot more philosophical progress would be one way to solve those problems, and I don’t see many other options.
Thanks, this position makes more sense in light of Beyond Astronomical Waste (I guess I have some concept of “a pretty good future” that is fine with something like a bunch of human-descended beings living a happy lives that misses out on the sort of things mentioned in Beyond Astronomical Waste, and “optimal future” which includes those considerations). I buy this as an argument that “we should put more effort into making philosophy work to make the outcome of AI better, because we risk losing large amounts of value” rather than “our efforts to get a pretty good future are doomed unless we make tons of progress on this” or something like that.
“Thousands of millions” was a typo.
What about the other post I linked, Two Neglected Problems in Human-AI Safety? A lot more philosophical progress would be one way to solve those problems, and I don’t see many other options.