You didn’t mention the Long Reflection, which is another point of contact between EA and religion. The Long Reflection is about figuring out what values are actually right, and I think it would be odd to not do deep study of all the cultures available to us to inform that, including religious ones. Presumably, EA is all about acting on the best values (when it does good, it does what is really good), so maybe it needs input from the Long Reflection to make big decisions.
James—I agree. Human values as they currently are—in all their messy, hypocritical, virtue-signaling, partisan, sectarian glory -- might NOT be what we want to upload into powerful AI systems. A Long Reflection might be advisable.
You didn’t mention the Long Reflection, which is another point of contact between EA and religion. The Long Reflection is about figuring out what values are actually right, and I think it would be odd to not do deep study of all the cultures available to us to inform that, including religious ones. Presumably, EA is all about acting on the best values (when it does good, it does what is really good), so maybe it needs input from the Long Reflection to make big decisions.
James—I agree. Human values as they currently are—in all their messy, hypocritical, virtue-signaling, partisan, sectarian glory -- might NOT be what we want to upload into powerful AI systems. A Long Reflection might be advisable.