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Is disempowerment that bad? Is a human directed society really much better than an AI directed society with a tiny weight of kindness towards humans? Human directed societies themselves usually create orthogonal and instrumental goals, and their assessment is highly subjective/relative. I don’t see how the disempowerment without extinction is that different from today to most people who are already effectively disempowered.
Is there a huge reason the latter is hugely different from the former for the average person excluding world leaders.
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It's a distinction between these different futures. The present that ends in everyone of Earth dying is clearly different from both, but the present literally everlasting is hopefully not a consideration.
I’m just trying to understand the biggest doomers. I feel like disempowerment is probably hard to avoid.
However I don’t think a disempowered future with bountiful lives would be terrible depending on how tiny the kindness weight is/how off it is from us. We are 1/10^53 of the observable universe’s resources. Unless alignment is wildly off base, I see AI directed extinction as unlikely.
I fail to see why even figures like Paul Christiano peg it at such a high level, unless he estimates human directed extinction risks to be high. It seems quite easy to create a plague that wipes out humans and a spiteful individual can do it, probably more likely than an extremely catastrophically misaligned AI.