Thanks for answering. I don’t really care about computer consciousnesses because I’m somewhat of a carbon chauvinist; I only care what happens to biological humans and other vertebrates who share my ancestry and brain architecture. I think the rest is just our empathy misfiring.
AI or em catastrophe would be terrible, but likely not hellish, so it would be merely a dead future, not a net-negative one.
The things I’m most concerned about are blind spots like animal suffering and political risks like irrational policies that cause more harm than benefit. If we include these, I think it’s plausible there is net-negative aggregate welfare even in developed countries. Technology might change these, but I think political risks and human biases (moral blind spots) can make any innovation useless or net harmful. I don’t know how to address these because I don’t believe advocacy actually works.
Thanks for answering. I don’t really care about computer consciousnesses because I’m somewhat of a carbon chauvinist; I only care what happens to biological humans and other vertebrates who share my ancestry and brain architecture. I think the rest is just our empathy misfiring.
AI or em catastrophe would be terrible, but likely not hellish, so it would be merely a dead future, not a net-negative one.
The things I’m most concerned about are blind spots like animal suffering and political risks like irrational policies that cause more harm than benefit. If we include these, I think it’s plausible there is net-negative aggregate welfare even in developed countries. Technology might change these, but I think political risks and human biases (moral blind spots) can make any innovation useless or net harmful. I don’t know how to address these because I don’t believe advocacy actually works.