Lesswrong is very good at taking known facts to their predictable conclusion, even when there isn’t a society-wide consensus on them. Especially when the conclusion is outside the norm. Examples include:
Predicting the extent of COVID by following the exponential
‘Feeling the AGI’ a few years before the mainstream based on rapidly doubling compute and earlier developments that weren’t mainstream (like GPT-2)
Currently unresolved examples might include:
Global population will not hit the predicted peaks because birthrates continue to fall, which the most prominent predictions don’t account for (they assume birthrates will hold at their current low levels).
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I completely agree that everyone has a right to normalcy.
However, “The Sentinelese” and “Sentinelese Culture” are not moral patients, in my opinion. The individuals are. Each person has the right to choose for themselves how they would live, given adequate information.
I believe that holds true under current capabilities also, but there’s no way to give each Sentinelese person a choice like that without immediate disruption that is likely to make their lives worse.
If future technological capabilities allow wider society to give each Sentinelese person an informed choice of how they should live without likely bad effects, that is what I consider the best path.