it’s convenient for separating out pre-existing problems with “we don’t know what to do with our society long term, nor is it engineered to achieve that” and the particular issues raised by AI.
I don’t think that separation is a good idea. Not knowing what to do with our society long term is a relatively tolerable problem until an upcoming change raises a significant prospect of locking-in some particular vision of society’s future. (Wei-Dai raises similar points in your exchange of replies, but I thought this framing might still be helpful.)
I don’t think that separation is a good idea. Not knowing what to do with our society long term is a relatively tolerable problem until an upcoming change raises a significant prospect of locking-in some particular vision of society’s future. (Wei-Dai raises similar points in your exchange of replies, but I thought this framing might still be helpful.)