Humans are less than maximally aligned with each other (e.g. we care less about the welfare of a random stranger than about our own welfare), and humans are also less than maximally misaligned with each other (e.g. most people don’t feel a sadistic desire for random strangers to suffer). I hope that everyone can agree about both those obvious things.
That still leaves the question of where we are on the vast spectrum in between those two extremes. But I think your claim “humans are largely misaligned with each other” is not meaningful enough to argue about. What percentage is “largely”, and how do we even measure that?
Anyway, I am concerned that future AIs will be more misaligned with random humans than random humans are with each other, and that this difference will have important bad consequences, and I also think there are other disanalogies / reasons-for-concern as well. But this is supposed to be a post about terminology so maybe we shouldn’t get into that kind of stuff here.
Humans are less than maximally aligned with each other (e.g. we care less about the welfare of a random stranger than about our own welfare), and humans are also less than maximally misaligned with each other (e.g. most people don’t feel a sadistic desire for random strangers to suffer). I hope that everyone can agree about both those obvious things.
That still leaves the question of where we are on the vast spectrum in between those two extremes. But I think your claim “humans are largely misaligned with each other” is not meaningful enough to argue about. What percentage is “largely”, and how do we even measure that?
Anyway, I am concerned that future AIs will be more misaligned with random humans than random humans are with each other, and that this difference will have important bad consequences, and I also think there are other disanalogies / reasons-for-concern as well. But this is supposed to be a post about terminology so maybe we shouldn’t get into that kind of stuff here.