A lot of powerful people would focus on being the ones to control it when it happens, so they’d control the future—and not be subject to some else’s control of the future. OpenPhil is about the only org that would think first of the public benefit and not the dangers of other humans controlling it. And not a terribly powerful org, particularly relative to governments.
I was being intentionally broad, here. I am probably less interested for purposes of this particular post only in the question of “who controls the future” swerves and more about “what else would interested, agentic actors do” questions.
It is not at all clear to me that OpenPhil is the only org who feels this way—I can think of several non-EA-ish charities that if they genuinely 100% believed “none of the people you care for will die of the evils you fight if you can just keep them alive for the next 90 days” would plausibly do some interestingly agentic stuff.
Endgame strategies from who?
A lot of powerful people would focus on being the ones to control it when it happens, so they’d control the future—and not be subject to some else’s control of the future. OpenPhil is about the only org that would think first of the public benefit and not the dangers of other humans controlling it. And not a terribly powerful org, particularly relative to governments.
I was being intentionally broad, here. I am probably less interested for purposes of this particular post only in the question of “who controls the future” swerves and more about “what else would interested, agentic actors do” questions.
It is not at all clear to me that OpenPhil is the only org who feels this way—I can think of several non-EA-ish charities that if they genuinely 100% believed “none of the people you care for will die of the evils you fight if you can just keep them alive for the next 90 days” would plausibly do some interestingly agentic stuff.