Why don’t we seem humans drifting into being sociopaths? E.g. starting as a normal, well adjusted human being and then becoming sociopaths as they get older?
That’s an interesting question, partially because we’d want to copy that and implement it in AI. A large part of it seems to be social pressure, and lack of power: people must respond to social pressure, because they don’t have the power to ignore it (a superintelligent AI would be very different, as would a superintelligent human). This is also connected with some evolutionary instincts, which cause us to behave in many ways as if we were in a tribal society with high costs to deviant behaviour—even if this is no longer the case.
The other main reason is evolution itself: very good at producing robustness, terrible at efficiency. If/when humans start self modifying freely, I’d start being worried about that tendency for them too...
That’s an interesting question, partially because we’d want to copy that and implement it in AI. A large part of it seems to be social pressure, and lack of power: people must respond to social pressure, because they don’t have the power to ignore it (a superintelligent AI would be very different, as would a superintelligent human). This is also connected with some evolutionary instincts, which cause us to behave in many ways as if we were in a tribal society with high costs to deviant behaviour—even if this is no longer the case.
The other main reason is evolution itself: very good at producing robustness, terrible at efficiency. If/when humans start self modifying freely, I’d start being worried about that tendency for them too...