But the text that you link to does not suggest any mechanism, that would actually protect Steve
There is a baseline set of rules that exists for exactly this purpose, which I didn’t want to go into detail on in that piece because it’s extremely distracting from the main point. These rules are not necessarily made purely by humans, but could for example be the result of some kind of AI-assisted negotiation that happens at ELYSIUM Setup.
“There would also be certain baseline rules like “no unwanted torture, even if the torturer enjoys it”, and rules to prevent the use of personal utopias as weapons.”
But I think you’re correct that the system that implements anti-weaponization and the systems that implement extrapolated volitions are potentially pushing against each other. This is of course a tension that is present in human society as well, which is why we have police.
So basically the question is “how do you balance the power of generalized-police against the power of generalized-self-interest.”
Now the whole point of having “Separate Individualized Utopias” is to reduce the need for police. In the real world, it does seem to be the case that extremely geographically isolated people don’t need much in the way of police involvement. Most human conflicts are conflicts of proximity, crimes of opportunity, etc. It is rare that someone basically starts an intercontinental stalking vendetta against another person. And if you had the entire resources of police departments just dedicated to preventing that kind of crime, and they also had mind-reading tech for everyone, I don’t think it would be a problem.
I think the more likely problem is that people will want to start haggling over what kind of universal rights they have over other people’s utopias. Again, we see this in real life. E.g. “diverse” characters forced into every video game because a few people with a lot of leverage want to affect the entire universe.
So right now I don’t have a fully satisfactory answer to how to fix this. It’s clear to me that most human conflict can be transformed into a much easier negotiation over basically who gets how much money/general-purpose-resources. But the remaining parts could get messy.
There is a baseline set of rules that exists for exactly this purpose, which I didn’t want to go into detail on in that piece because it’s extremely distracting from the main point. These rules are not necessarily made purely by humans, but could for example be the result of some kind of AI-assisted negotiation that happens at ELYSIUM Setup.
But I think you’re correct that the system that implements anti-weaponization and the systems that implement extrapolated volitions are potentially pushing against each other. This is of course a tension that is present in human society as well, which is why we have police.
So basically the question is “how do you balance the power of generalized-police against the power of generalized-self-interest.”
Now the whole point of having “Separate Individualized Utopias” is to reduce the need for police. In the real world, it does seem to be the case that extremely geographically isolated people don’t need much in the way of police involvement. Most human conflicts are conflicts of proximity, crimes of opportunity, etc. It is rare that someone basically starts an intercontinental stalking vendetta against another person. And if you had the entire resources of police departments just dedicated to preventing that kind of crime, and they also had mind-reading tech for everyone, I don’t think it would be a problem.
I think the more likely problem is that people will want to start haggling over what kind of universal rights they have over other people’s utopias. Again, we see this in real life. E.g. “diverse” characters forced into every video game because a few people with a lot of leverage want to affect the entire universe.
So right now I don’t have a fully satisfactory answer to how to fix this. It’s clear to me that most human conflict can be transformed into a much easier negotiation over basically who gets how much money/general-purpose-resources. But the remaining parts could get messy.