That said, I do think there’s more overlap (in expectation) between minds produced by processes similar to biological evolution, than between evolved minds and (unaligned) ML-style minds. I expect more aliens to care about at least some things that we vaguely recognize, even if the correspondence is never exact.
On my models, it’s entirely possible that there just turns out to be ~no overlap between humans and aliens, because aliens turn out to be very alien. But “lots of overlap” is also very plausible. (Whereas I don’t think “lots of overlap” is plausible for humans and misaligned AGI.)
Why is aliens wanting to put us in a zoo more plausible than the AI wanting to put us in a zoo itself?
Edit: Ah, there are more aliens around so even if the average alien doesn’t care about us, it’s plausible that some of them would?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HoQ5Rp7Gs6rebusNP/superintelligent-ai-is-necessary-for-an-amazing-future-but-1#How_likely_are_extremely_good_and_extremely_bad_outcomes_