Mithindon

Suppose humans are not your own species, but a type of AI you are formally assessing for safety. You have before you the records of many test simulations. Yes, smallpox eradication, mass literacy, and the Green Revolution are there. So are the Killing Fields, Aztec human sacrifice, slavery, the Holocaust,...

(Nothing here is actually new, but a short explanation with pictures would have been helpful to me a while ago, so I thought I'd make an attempt.) Let me start with a patch of territory: a set of things that exist. The number of rows is far from clear, but...