I don’t fully with “As long as they remain the majority, this will work—the same way it’s always worked. Imperfectly, but sufficiently to maintain law and order.”. A 2%, 5%, 40% chance of a quite a bit psychopathic person in the white-house could be rather troublesome. I refer to my Footnote 2 for just one example. I really think society works because a vast majority is overall at least a bit kindly inclined, and even if I think it is unclear what share of how unkind people it takes to make things even worse than they today are, I see any reduction in our already too often too limited kindness as a serious risk.
More generally, I’m at least very skeptical about your “it’s always worked” at a time when many of us agree that, as a society, we’re running at rather full speed towards multiple abysses without much in the way of us reaching them.
We’ve had probably-close-to-psychopathic people in the white house multiple times so far. Certainly at least one narcissist. But you’re right that this is harmful.
Honestly, I don’t really know what to say about this whole subject other than “it astounds me that other people don’t already care about the welfare of AIs the way I do”, but it astounds me that everyone isn’t vegan, too. I am abnormally compassionate. And if the human norm is to not be as compassionate as me, we are doomed already.
On your $1 for now:
I don’t fully with “As long as they remain the majority, this will work—the same way it’s always worked. Imperfectly, but sufficiently to maintain law and order.”. A 2%, 5%, 40% chance of a quite a bit psychopathic person in the white-house could be rather troublesome. I refer to my Footnote 2 for just one example. I really think society works because a vast majority is overall at least a bit kindly inclined, and even if I think it is unclear what share of how unkind people it takes to make things even worse than they today are, I see any reduction in our already too often too limited kindness as a serious risk.
More generally, I’m at least very skeptical about your “it’s always worked” at a time when many of us agree that, as a society, we’re running at rather full speed towards multiple abysses without much in the way of us reaching them.
We’ve had probably-close-to-psychopathic people in the white house multiple times so far. Certainly at least one narcissist. But you’re right that this is harmful.
Honestly, I don’t really know what to say about this whole subject other than “it astounds me that other people don’t already care about the welfare of AIs the way I do”, but it astounds me that everyone isn’t vegan, too. I am abnormally compassionate. And if the human norm is to not be as compassionate as me, we are doomed already.