Current human deliberation and discourse are strongly tied up with a kind of resource gathering and competition, and because of this I don’t have a good picture of how things will look after the two are decoupled, nor know how to extrapolate past performance (how well human deliberation worked in the past and present) into this future.
Currently, people’s thinking and speech are in large part ultimately motivated by the need to signal intelligence, loyalty, wealth, or other “positive” attributes, which help to increase one’s social status and career prospects, and attract allies and mates, which are of course hugely important forms of resources, and some of the main objects of competition among humans.
Once we offload competition to AI assistants, what happens to this motivation behind discourse and deliberation, and how will that affect discourse and deliberation itself? Can you say more about what you envision happening in your scenario, in this respect?
Current human deliberation and discourse are strongly tied up with a kind of resource gathering and competition, and because of this I don’t have a good picture of how things will look after the two are decoupled, nor know how to extrapolate past performance (how well human deliberation worked in the past and present) into this future.
Currently, people’s thinking and speech are in large part ultimately motivated by the need to signal intelligence, loyalty, wealth, or other “positive” attributes, which help to increase one’s social status and career prospects, and attract allies and mates, which are of course hugely important forms of resources, and some of the main objects of competition among humans.
Once we offload competition to AI assistants, what happens to this motivation behind discourse and deliberation, and how will that affect discourse and deliberation itself? Can you say more about what you envision happening in your scenario, in this respect?