I’m inclined to agree: as technology improves, the amount of havoc that one, or small group of, bad actors can commit increases, so it becomes both more necessary to keep almost everyone happy enough almost all the time for them not to do that, and also to defend against the inevitable occasional exceptions. (In the unfinished SF novel whose research was how I first went down this AI alignment rabbithole, something along the lines you describe that was standard policy, except that the AIs doing it were superintelligent, and had the ability to turn their long-term-learning-from-experience off, and then back on again if they found something sufficiently alarming). But in my post I didn’t want to get sidetracked by discussing something that inherently contentious, so I basically skipped the issue, with the small aside you picked up on
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I’m inclined to agree: as technology improves, the amount of havoc that one, or small group of, bad actors can commit increases, so it becomes both more necessary to keep almost everyone happy enough almost all the time for them not to do that, and also to defend against the inevitable occasional exceptions. (In the unfinished SF novel whose research was how I first went down this AI alignment rabbithole, something along the lines you describe that was standard policy, except that the AIs doing it were superintelligent, and had the ability to turn their long-term-learning-from-experience off, and then back on again if they found something sufficiently alarming). But in my post I didn’t want to get sidetracked by discussing something that inherently contentious, so I basically skipped the issue, with the small aside you picked up on