While I’m horrified by your values, I thank you for the clear exposition. And I think you made, although implicitly, an interesting point: outside of our stable equilibrium, things are a generally a net negative if you factor in the welfare of all humanity. But if you consider only US’ well being, things might be a net positive. This I believe is so far from Yudkowsky’s set of values that it was impossible for him to envision.
LW isn’t a place to argue about politics, so I’m not going to go into why we have the values that we have here.
Well, an easy guess would be that you believe the world to be a zero-sum game: if that’s the case, then better have your team win big at the expense of everyone else than having everybody live on the scraps.
But if you consider only US’ well being, things might be a net positive.
If actions can be traced down to cause a whole lot of suffering, then it might be less certain to get a net positive outcome (for example due to empathic people revolting against these actions or feelings of guilt harming education and innovation; exodus of professionals to metropolitan regions in Europe, Asia etc.).
While I’m horrified by your values, I thank you for the clear exposition. And I think you made, although implicitly, an interesting point: outside of our stable equilibrium, things are a generally a net negative if you factor in the welfare of all humanity. But if you consider only US’ well being, things might be a net positive.
This I believe is so far from Yudkowsky’s set of values that it was impossible for him to envision.
Well, an easy guess would be that you believe the world to be a zero-sum game: if that’s the case, then better have your team win big at the expense of everyone else than having everybody live on the scraps.
If actions can be traced down to cause a whole lot of suffering, then it might be less certain to get a net positive outcome (for example due to empathic people revolting against these actions or feelings of guilt harming education and innovation; exodus of professionals to metropolitan regions in Europe, Asia etc.).