How are we defining selfish here? It seem like a pretty strong position to take on the topic of psychological egoism? Especially including family/friends in terms of selfish?
In your original post, you say:
All that extra wealth did not make us extreme moral saints; instead, we still mostly care about ourselves, our family, and our friends.
But I don’t know, it seems that as countries and individuals get wealthier, we seem to on the whole be getting better? Maybe factory farming acts against this, but the idea that factory farming is immoral and should be abolished exists and I think is only going to grow. I don’t think the humans are just slaves to our base wants/desires, and think that is a remarkably impoverished view of both individual human pyschology and social morality.
As such, I don’t really agree with much of this post. An AGI, when built, will be able to generate new ideas and hypotheses about the world, including moral ones. A strong-but-narrow AI could be worse (e.g. optimal-factory-farm-PT), but then the right response here isn’t really technical alignment, it’s AI governance and moral persuasion in general.
How are we defining selfish here? It seem like a pretty strong position to take on the topic of psychological egoism? Especially including family/friends in terms of selfish?
In your original post, you say:
But I don’t know, it seems that as countries and individuals get wealthier, we seem to on the whole be getting better? Maybe factory farming acts against this, but the idea that factory farming is immoral and should be abolished exists and I think is only going to grow. I don’t think the humans are just slaves to our base wants/desires, and think that is a remarkably impoverished view of both individual human pyschology and social morality.
As such, I don’t really agree with much of this post. An AGI, when built, will be able to generate new ideas and hypotheses about the world, including moral ones. A strong-but-narrow AI could be worse (e.g. optimal-factory-farm-PT), but then the right response here isn’t really technical alignment, it’s AI governance and moral persuasion in general.