Vigilantism has been found to be lacking. If I wanted to help with that problem in particular I’d become a cop, or vote for politicians to put higher priority on it. That seems directly comparable to what the humans in the story intended to do for most of it.
What the baby eaters are doing is worst by most people’s standards than anything in our history. At least if scale counts for something. Humans don’t even need a shared utility function. There just needs to be a cluster around what most people would reflectively endource. Paperclip maximizers might fight each other over the exact definition, but a pencil maximizer is clearly not helping by any of their standards.
Also the baby eaters aren’t Spartans. If you gave the Spartans a cure all for birth defects, they would stop killing their kids, and certainly wouldn’t complain about cure.
Vigilantism has been found to be lacking. If I wanted to help with that problem in particular I’d become a cop, or vote for politicians to put higher priority on it. That seems directly comparable to what the humans in the story intended to do for most of it.
What the baby eaters are doing is worst by most people’s standards than anything in our history. At least if scale counts for something. Humans don’t even need a shared utility function. There just needs to be a cluster around what most people would reflectively endource. Paperclip maximizers might fight each other over the exact definition, but a pencil maximizer is clearly not helping by any of their standards.
Also the baby eaters aren’t Spartans. If you gave the Spartans a cure all for birth defects, they would stop killing their kids, and certainly wouldn’t complain about cure.