I think this is a fair complaint! I think it’s quite unwholesome, if you think we’re in a crisis, to turn away and not look at that, or not work towards helping. It seems important to think about safety rails against that. It’s less obviously unwholesome to keep devoting some effort towards typical human things while also devoting some effort towards fighting. (And I think there are a lot of stories I could tell where such paths end up doing better for the world than monomania about the things which seem most important.)
BTW one agenda here is thinking about what kinds of properties we might want societies of AI systems to have. I think there’s some slice of worlds where things go better if we teach our AI systems to be something-in-the-vicinity-of-wholesome than if we don’t.
I think this is a fair complaint! I think it’s quite unwholesome, if you think we’re in a crisis, to turn away and not look at that, or not work towards helping. It seems important to think about safety rails against that. It’s less obviously unwholesome to keep devoting some effort towards typical human things while also devoting some effort towards fighting. (And I think there are a lot of stories I could tell where such paths end up doing better for the world than monomania about the things which seem most important.)
BTW one agenda here is thinking about what kinds of properties we might want societies of AI systems to have. I think there’s some slice of worlds where things go better if we teach our AI systems to be something-in-the-vicinity-of-wholesome than if we don’t.