My experience is that the Chinese(I am one) will disassociate with the “strange part” of EA, such as mental uploading or minimization of suffering or even life extension: the basic conservative argument for species extension and life as human beings is what works.
CN is fundamentally conservative in that sense. The complications are not many and largely revolve around:
How is this good for the Party.
How is this good for “keeping things in harmony/close to nature/Taoism”
Emotional appeals for safety and effort. The story of effort = worth is strong there, and devaluation of human effort leads to reactions of disgust.
Mind uploading and life extension are far easier sells than ending factory farming, in my experience. It’s not the tech part we find cringe, but the altruism part. The Chinese soul wants to make money, be cool, and work in a cool field. People trying to sell me altruism are probably part of a doomsday cult (e.g. Catholicism).
I think the lack of altruism part comes from the desire to compete and be superior(via effort). There’s no vast desire to have altruism as the West understands it. How would you be better than others?
The upside is that “specism” is a norm. There would be zero worry about wanting to give AI “fair rights.” I do think there is some consideration for “humankind”, but individual rights(for humans or animals) are strictly a “nice to have, unnecessary and often harmful.”
My experience is that the Chinese(I am one) will disassociate with the “strange part” of EA, such as mental uploading or minimization of suffering or even life extension: the basic conservative argument for species extension and life as human beings is what works.
CN is fundamentally conservative in that sense. The complications are not many and largely revolve around:
How is this good for the Party.
How is this good for “keeping things in harmony/close to nature/Taoism”
Emotional appeals for safety and effort. The story of effort = worth is strong there, and devaluation of human effort leads to reactions of disgust.
Mind uploading and life extension are far easier sells than ending factory farming, in my experience. It’s not the tech part we find cringe, but the altruism part. The Chinese soul wants to make money, be cool, and work in a cool field. People trying to sell me altruism are probably part of a doomsday cult (e.g. Catholicism).
I think the lack of altruism part comes from the desire to compete and be superior(via effort). There’s no vast desire to have altruism as the West understands it. How would you be better than others?
The upside is that “specism” is a norm. There would be zero worry about wanting to give AI “fair rights.” I do think there is some consideration for “humankind”, but individual rights(for humans or animals) are strictly a “nice to have, unnecessary and often harmful.”