If it “solves all your problems” in a way that leaves you bored or pithed or wireheaded, then you still have a problem, don’t you? At least you have a problem according to your pre-wireheading value system, which ought to count for something.
That, plus plain old physical limitations, may mean that even talking about “solving all of anybody’s problems” is an error.
Also, I’m not so sure that there’s an “us” such that you can talk about “our problems”. Me getting what makes me Truly Happy may actually be a problem from your point of view, or of course vice versa. It may or may not make sense to talk about “educating” anybody out of any such conflict. Irreconcilable differences seem very likely to be a very real thing, at least on relatively minor issues, but quite possibly in areas that are and will remain truly important to some people.
But, yeah, as I think you allude to, those are all nice problems to have. For now I think it’s more about not ending up dead, or inescapably locked into something that a whole lot of people would see as an obvious full-on dystopia. I’m not as sure as you seem to be that you can assure that without rapidly going all the way to full-on superintelligence, though.
If it “solves all your problems” in a way that leaves you bored or pithed or wireheaded, then you still have a problem, don’t you? At least you have a problem according to your pre-wireheading value system, which ought to count for something.
That, plus plain old physical limitations, may mean that even talking about “solving all of anybody’s problems” is an error.
Also, I’m not so sure that there’s an “us” such that you can talk about “our problems”. Me getting what makes me Truly Happy may actually be a problem from your point of view, or of course vice versa. It may or may not make sense to talk about “educating” anybody out of any such conflict. Irreconcilable differences seem very likely to be a very real thing, at least on relatively minor issues, but quite possibly in areas that are and will remain truly important to some people.
But, yeah, as I think you allude to, those are all nice problems to have. For now I think it’s more about not ending up dead, or inescapably locked into something that a whole lot of people would see as an obvious full-on dystopia. I’m not as sure as you seem to be that you can assure that without rapidly going all the way to full-on superintelligence, though.