Though, given my doomerism, I think the natsec framing of the AGI race is likely wrongheaded, let me accept the Dario/Leopold/Altman frame that AGI will be aligned with the national interest of a great power. These people seem to take as an axiom that a USG AGI will be better in some way than a CCP AGI. Has anyone written a justification for this assumption?
I am neither an American citizen nor a Chinese citizen.
What would it mean for an AGI to be aligned with "Democracy," or "Confucianism," or "Marxism with Chinese characteristics," or "the American Constitution"? Contingent on a world where such an entity exists and is compatible with my existence, what would my life be like in a weird transhuman future as a non-citizen in each system? Why should I expect a USG AGI to be better than a CCP AGI? It does not seem to me super obvious that I should cheer for either party over the other. And if the intelligence of the governing class is of any relevance to the likelihood of a positive outcome, um, CCP seems to have USG beat hands down.
From an individual person perspective, less authoritarian ASI is better. "Authoritarian" measure here means the degree it allows itself to restrict your freedoms.
The implicit assumption here as I understand it is that Chinese ASI would be more authoritarian than US. It may not be a correct assumption, as US has proven to commit fairly heinous things to domestic (spying on) and foreign (mass murdering) citizens.
Though, given my doomerism, I think the natsec framing of the AGI race is likely wrongheaded, let me accept the Dario/Leopold/Altman frame that AGI will be aligned with the national interest of a great power. These people seem to take as an axiom that a USG AGI will be better in some way than a CCP AGI. Has anyone written a justification for this assumption?
I am neither an American citizen nor a Chinese citizen.
What would it mean for an AGI to be aligned with "Democracy," or "Confucianism," or "Marxism with Chinese characteristics," or "the American Constitution"? Contingent on a world where such an entity exists and is compatible with my existence, what would my life be like in a weird transhuman future as a non-citizen in each system? Why should I expect a USG AGI to be better than a CCP AGI? It does not seem to me super obvious that I should cheer for either party over the other. And if the intelligence of the governing class is of any relevance to the likelihood of a positive outcome, um, CCP seems to have USG beat hands down.