I don’t see much of a disagreement here? I’m just saying that the way in which random things are accelerated is largely via convergent stuff; and therefore there’s maybe some way that one can “repurpose” all that convergent stuff towards some aligned goal. I agree that this idea is dubious / doesn’t obviously work. As a contrast, one could imagine instead a world in which new capabilities are sort of very idiosyncratic to the particular goal they serve, and when you get an agent with some goals, all its cognitive machinery is idiosyncratic and hard to parse out, and it would be totally infeasible to extract the useful cognitive machinery and repurpose it.
I don’t see much of a disagreement here? I’m just saying that the way in which random things are accelerated is largely via convergent stuff; and therefore there’s maybe some way that one can “repurpose” all that convergent stuff towards some aligned goal. I agree that this idea is dubious / doesn’t obviously work. As a contrast, one could imagine instead a world in which new capabilities are sort of very idiosyncratic to the particular goal they serve, and when you get an agent with some goals, all its cognitive machinery is idiosyncratic and hard to parse out, and it would be totally infeasible to extract the useful cognitive machinery and repurpose it.