The latter, where “a lot of work” is the kind of thing humanity can manage in subjective centuries. In an indirect normativity design, doing much more work than that should still be feasible, since it’s only specified abstractly, to be predicted by an AI, enabling distillation. So we can still reach it, if there is an AI to compute the result. But if there is already such an AI, perhaps the work is pointless, because the AI can carry out the work’s purpose in a different way.
The latter, where “a lot of work” is the kind of thing humanity can manage in subjective centuries. In an indirect normativity design, doing much more work than that should still be feasible, since it’s only specified abstractly, to be predicted by an AI, enabling distillation. So we can still reach it, if there is an AI to compute the result. But if there is already such an AI, perhaps the work is pointless, because the AI can carry out the work’s purpose in a different way.