Not sure I love this analogy — moving to NYC doesn’t seem like that big of a deal —, but I do think it’s pretty messed up to be imposing huge social / technological / societal changes on 8 billion of your peers. I expect most of the people building AGI have not really grasped the ethical magnitude of doing this — I think I sort of have, but also I don’t build AGI.
Not sure I love this analogy — moving to NYC doesn’t seem like that big of a deal —, but I do think it’s pretty messed up to be imposing huge social / technological / societal changes on 8 billion of your peers. I expect most of the people building AGI have not really grasped the ethical magnitude of doing this — I think I sort of have, but also I don’t build AGI.
You seem to be privileging the status quo. Refraining from doing that has equally large effects on your peers.
Things staying mostly the same doesn’t seem to count as a “large effect”. For example, we wouldn’t say taking a placebo pill has a large effect.