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Interspecies diplomacy as a potentially productive lens on AGI alignment

Aug 24, 2022•5

Shariq Hashme

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Interspecies diplomacy as a potentially productive lens on AGI alignment

Aug 24, 2022•5

Shariq Hashme

Interspecies diplomacy as a potentially productive lens on AGI alignment

Shariq Hashme

You wake up tomorrow, and find out that super-smart and powerful aliens are arriving here in 10 years. We don't know anything about them other than the fact that they're super smart and powerful: e.g, their minds run on giant computers at THz clock speeds, they can integrate planets' worth of sensor data at once, they can do direct mass to energy conversion in their spaceships, they have weapons capable of destroying our planet in an instant, etc etc.

What do you, personally, do?

What should humanity overall do?

I think the answers to these questions shine a very important light on overlooked AGI alignment strategies. Rather than seeing the arrival of AGI as a... (read 560 more words →)

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Interspecies diplomacy as a potentially productive lens on AGI alignment

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Interspecies diplomacy as a potentially productive lens on AGI alignment