Why isn’t the obvious outside view to draw a line showing the increased peacefulness of contacts with the increasing technological development of the parties involved, and extrapolate to super-peaceful aliens? Isn’t this more or less exactly why you argue that AIs will inevitably trade with us? Why extrapolate for AIs but not for aliens?
To be clear on this, I don’t simply distrust the advice of an obvious outside view, I think that in cases like these, people perform a selective search for a reference class that supports a foregone conclusion (and then cry “Outside View!”). This foregone conclusion is based on inside viewing in the best case; in the worst case it is based entirely on motivated cognition or wishful thinking. Thus, to cry “Outside View!” is just to conceal the potentially very flawed thinking that went into the choice of reference class.
Why isn’t the obvious outside view to draw a line showing the increased peacefulness of contacts with the increasing technological development of the parties involved, and extrapolate to super-peaceful aliens? Isn’t this more or less exactly why you argue that AIs will inevitably trade with us? Why extrapolate for AIs but not for aliens?
To be clear on this, I don’t simply distrust the advice of an obvious outside view, I think that in cases like these, people perform a selective search for a reference class that supports a foregone conclusion (and then cry “Outside View!”). This foregone conclusion is based on inside viewing in the best case; in the worst case it is based entirely on motivated cognition or wishful thinking. Thus, to cry “Outside View!” is just to conceal the potentially very flawed thinking that went into the choice of reference class.