I think that neither of those are selective uses of analogies. They do point to similarities between things we have access to and future ASI that you might not think are valid similarities, but that is one thing that makes analogies useful—they can make locating disagreements in people’s models very fast, since they’re structurally meant to transmit information in a highly compressed fashion.
I think that neither of those are selective uses of analogies. They do point to similarities between things we have access to and future ASI that you might not think are valid similarities, but that is one thing that makes analogies useful—they can make locating disagreements in people’s models very fast, since they’re structurally meant to transmit information in a highly compressed fashion.