Maybe one could argue with the second species argument/gorilla problem (Russel in Human Compatible)?
Seems plausible to me that we’re currently enabling a totalitarian global state for many factory-farmed animals—and we probably could do this permanently.
Lennart—thanks for the link. I understand the analogy.
The question is, would our totalitarian global state of factory farming actually be stable and permanent (in the sense of lasting thousands of generations?)
Seems like we raise animals for meat, and they suffer. If we enjoy faster technological progress than the farm animals, we’ll eventually invent ways to grow their meat without having to raise them at all. Their suffering isn’t causally relevant to meat production; it’s a negative by-product.
So any AI capable of imposing a global totalitarian state in order to exploit our labor (or whatever it’s getting from us), should be able to find more efficient alternatives to raising humans at all. Like if the Machines in the Matrix movies found a better way to produce energy (e.g. fusion?) than keeping humans around as ‘batteries’ locked in a totalitarian virtual reality.
In which case we face a true extinction risk, not a non-extinction totalitarian lock-in risk.
Maybe one could argue with the second species argument/gorilla problem (Russel in Human Compatible)? Seems plausible to me that we’re currently enabling a totalitarian global state for many factory-farmed animals—and we probably could do this permanently.
Lennart—thanks for the link. I understand the analogy.
The question is, would our totalitarian global state of factory farming actually be stable and permanent (in the sense of lasting thousands of generations?)
Seems like we raise animals for meat, and they suffer. If we enjoy faster technological progress than the farm animals, we’ll eventually invent ways to grow their meat without having to raise them at all. Their suffering isn’t causally relevant to meat production; it’s a negative by-product.
So any AI capable of imposing a global totalitarian state in order to exploit our labor (or whatever it’s getting from us), should be able to find more efficient alternatives to raising humans at all. Like if the Machines in the Matrix movies found a better way to produce energy (e.g. fusion?) than keeping humans around as ‘batteries’ locked in a totalitarian virtual reality.
In which case we face a true extinction risk, not a non-extinction totalitarian lock-in risk.