It seems to me that a technology that could make a human smarter is much more likely (compared to AI) to accelerate all forms of intellectual progress (e.g., technological progress and philosophical/moral progress) about equally, and therefore would have a less significant effect on the kinds of problems that I’m talking about (which are largely caused by technological progress outpacing philosophical/moral progress).
Yes, I agree with this. The reason I mentioned that was to make the point that the problems are a function of progress in general and aren’t specific to AI—they are just exacerbated by AI. I think this is a weak reason to expect that solutions are likely to come from outside of AI.
Assuming the above, and assuming that one has moral uncertainty that gives some weight to the concept of moral responsibility, it seems to me that an additional argument for AI researchers to work on these problems is that it’s a moral responsibility of AI researchers/companies to try to solve problems that they create, for example via technological solutions, or by coordinating amongst themselves, or by convincing policymakers to coordinate, or by funding others to work on these problems, etc., and they are currently neglecting to do this.
This seems true. Just to make sure I’m not misunderstanding, this was meant to be an observation, and not meant to argue that I personally should prioritize this, right?
The reason I mentioned that was to make the point that the problems are a function of progress in general and aren’t specific to AI—they are just exacerbated by AI. I think this is a weak reason to expect that solutions are likely to come from outside of AI.
This doesn’t make much sense to me. Why is this any kind of reason to expect that solutions are likely to come from outside of AI? Can you give me an analogy where this kind of reasoning more obviously makes sense?
Just to make sure I’m not misunderstanding, this was meant to be an observation, and not meant to argue that I personally should prioritize this, right?
Right, this argument wasn’t targeted to you, but I think there are other reasons for you to personally prioritize this. See my comment in the parallel thread.
Yes, I agree with this. The reason I mentioned that was to make the point that the problems are a function of progress in general and aren’t specific to AI—they are just exacerbated by AI. I think this is a weak reason to expect that solutions are likely to come from outside of AI.
This seems true. Just to make sure I’m not misunderstanding, this was meant to be an observation, and not meant to argue that I personally should prioritize this, right?
This doesn’t make much sense to me. Why is this any kind of reason to expect that solutions are likely to come from outside of AI? Can you give me an analogy where this kind of reasoning more obviously makes sense?
Right, this argument wasn’t targeted to you, but I think there are other reasons for you to personally prioritize this. See my comment in the parallel thread.