Every time I think about how I can do the most good, I am burdened by questions roughly like
How should value be measured?
How should well-being be measured?
How might my actions engender unintended, harmful outcomes?
How can my impact be measured?
I do not have good answers to these questions, but I would bet on some actions being positively impactful on the net.
For example
Promoting vegetarianism or veganism
Providing medicine and resources to those in poverty
Building robust political institutions in developing countries
Promoting policy to monitor develops in AI
W.r.t. the action that is most positively impactful, my intuition is that it would take the form of safeguarding humanity’s future or protecting life on Earth.
Some possible actions that might fit this bill:
Work that robustly illustrates the theoretical limits of the dangers from and capabilities of superintelligence.
Work that accurately encodes human values digitally
A global surveillance system for human and machine threats
A system that protects Earth from solar weather and NEOs
The problem here is that some of these actions might spawn harm, particularly (2) and (3).
Every time I think about how I can do the most good, I am burdened by questions roughly like
How should value be measured?
How should well-being be measured?
How might my actions engender unintended, harmful outcomes?
How can my impact be measured?
I do not have good answers to these questions, but I would bet on some actions being positively impactful on the net.
For example
Promoting vegetarianism or veganism
Providing medicine and resources to those in poverty
Building robust political institutions in developing countries
Promoting policy to monitor develops in AI
W.r.t. the action that is most positively impactful, my intuition is that it would take the form of safeguarding humanity’s future or protecting life on Earth.
Some possible actions that might fit this bill:
Work that robustly illustrates the theoretical limits of the dangers from and capabilities of superintelligence.
Work that accurately encodes human values digitally
A global surveillance system for human and machine threats
A system that protects Earth from solar weather and NEOs
The problem here is that some of these actions might spawn harm, particularly (2) and (3).