Steven Byrnes comments on anaguma’s Shortform

[Steven Byrnes]

If it helps, I criticized Richard Sutton RE alignment here, and he replied on X here, and I replied back here.

Also, Paul Christiano mentions an exchange with him here:

[Sutton] agrees that all else equal it would be better if we handed off to human uploads instead of powerful AI. I think his view is that the proposed course of action from the alignment community is morally horrifying (since in practice he thinks the alternative is “attempt to have a slave society,” not “slow down AI progress for decades”—I think he might also believe that stagnation is much worse than a handoff but haven’t heard his view on this specifically) and that even if you are losing something in expectation by handing the universe off to AI systems it’s not as bad as the alternative.