and regardless, CEV merely re-allocates influence to the arbitrary natural preferences of the present generation of humans
I thought CEV was meant to cover the (idealized, extrapolated) preferences of all living humans in perpetuity. In other words, it would include future generations as they were born, and would also update if the wisdom of the current generation grew. (or less charitably, if its moral fashions changed)
I do recognize that classical CEV being speciesist in favor of Humans is probably its central flaw (forget about hypothetical sentient AIs and friendly aliens, what about animals?), but I think it might at least be self-modifying on this front as well? For example, if we ran into some friendly Star Trek aliens, and we wanted to have them join humanity as equals in a new Federation, our CEV would then become “also include these guys as sources of the CEV”, and thus they would be.
I’m not sure if a CEV-as-learned-by-AI would necessarily be flexible enough to make those aliens permanent voting shareholders of the CEV, such that if humanity later regretted their decision to include these aliens they wouldn’t suddenly get removed from the CEV, but it at least seems plausible?
(Anyway I’m really liking this series, thanks for writing it!)
I thought CEV was meant to cover the (idealized, extrapolated) preferences of all living humans in perpetuity. In other words, it would include future generations as they were born, and would also update if the wisdom of the current generation grew. (or less charitably, if its moral fashions changed)
I do recognize that classical CEV being speciesist in favor of Humans is probably its central flaw (forget about hypothetical sentient AIs and friendly aliens, what about animals?), but I think it might at least be self-modifying on this front as well? For example, if we ran into some friendly Star Trek aliens, and we wanted to have them join humanity as equals in a new Federation, our CEV would then become “also include these guys as sources of the CEV”, and thus they would be.
I’m not sure if a CEV-as-learned-by-AI would necessarily be flexible enough to make those aliens permanent voting shareholders of the CEV, such that if humanity later regretted their decision to include these aliens they wouldn’t suddenly get removed from the CEV, but it at least seems plausible?
(Anyway I’m really liking this series, thanks for writing it!)