Potentially influencing lock-in is certainly among my motivations for wanting to work on AI friendliness, and doing things that could have a positive impact of a potential lock-in has a lot speaking for it I think (and many of these things, such as improving the morality of the general populous, or creating tools or initiatives for thinking better about such questions, are things that could have significant positive effects also if no lock-in occurs).
As to example of having-more-children out of far-future concerns, I think this could go the other way also (although I don’t necessarily thing that it would—I really don’t know). If we e.g. reach a solution where it is decided that all humans have certain rights, can reproduce, etc, but also decide that all or a fraction of the matter in the universe we have little need for are used to increase utility in more efficient ways (e.g. by creating utilitronium or by creating non-human sentient beings with positive and meaningful existences), then a larger human population could lead to less of that.
An important topic!
Potentially influencing lock-in is certainly among my motivations for wanting to work on AI friendliness, and doing things that could have a positive impact of a potential lock-in has a lot speaking for it I think (and many of these things, such as improving the morality of the general populous, or creating tools or initiatives for thinking better about such questions, are things that could have significant positive effects also if no lock-in occurs).
As to example of having-more-children out of far-future concerns, I think this could go the other way also (although I don’t necessarily thing that it would—I really don’t know). If we e.g. reach a solution where it is decided that all humans have certain rights, can reproduce, etc, but also decide that all or a fraction of the matter in the universe we have little need for are used to increase utility in more efficient ways (e.g. by creating utilitronium or by creating non-human sentient beings with positive and meaningful existences), then a larger human population could lead to less of that.