Agreed. I’m partially responding to lines in the post like:
Despite this, spontaneous strategic altruism towards strangers is extremely rare. The median American directs exactly 0$ to global poverty interventions
And
So in keeping with this long tradition of human selfishness, it sounds likely that if we succeed at aligning AI, the vast, vast majority of its output will get directed toward satisfying the preferences and values of the people controlling it (or possessing leverage over its continued operation) - not the “CEV of all humans”
It feels to me like the naive guess from billionaires is more like 10% (in keeping with the numbers you provided, thanks) rather than 0.1%. (I’m more optimistic than this naive guess overall for a few reasons.)
Agreed. I’m partially responding to lines in the post like:
And
It feels to me like the naive guess from billionaires is more like 10% (in keeping with the numbers you provided, thanks) rather than 0.1%. (I’m more optimistic than this naive guess overall for a few reasons.)