Arguing to maintain the status quo for when AGI arrives is a bit odd. AGI will be so transformational that it would require a societal adjustment (same as the introduction of agricultural, the black death, industrialisation, electricity, the internet) that there will have to be a change to the political status quo. Why not use this opportunity to argue an improvement to the status quo?
I discuss a "renewed liberal international order," an economy where "individuals may be shareholders in AGI companies," and successors "able to choose their own and common modes of thought and experiences for their organizations, states, and species." I think these ideas are all a departure from, and an improvement to, the status quo.
I respectfully disagree. Becoming a shareholder in an AGI company is functionally no different to being a stakeholder now. Choosing our own modes of thoughts and experiences sounds exactly what is currently happening now or what is possible to happen under current socio-political frameworks. There is nothing transformative in those; simply more of the same, or a slight evolution of current orders at best.
That is what I was hoping to see from the article. In my view, an extreme multipolar world focussing on the enhanced and augmented individual autonomy and self-direcrion would be a massive improvement on the status quo.
Arguing to maintain the status quo for when AGI arrives is a bit odd. AGI will be so transformational that it would require a societal adjustment (same as the introduction of agricultural, the black death, industrialisation, electricity, the internet) that there will have to be a change to the political status quo. Why not use this opportunity to argue an improvement to the status quo?
I discuss a "renewed liberal international order," an economy where "individuals may be shareholders in AGI companies," and successors "able to choose their own and common modes of thought and experiences for their organizations, states, and species." I think these ideas are all a departure from, and an improvement to, the status quo.
I respectfully disagree. Becoming a shareholder in an AGI company is functionally no different to being a stakeholder now. Choosing our own modes of thoughts and experiences sounds exactly what is currently happening now or what is possible to happen under current socio-political frameworks. There is nothing transformative in those; simply more of the same, or a slight evolution of current orders at best.
What would be an improvement to the status quo?
That is what I was hoping to see from the article. In my view, an extreme multipolar world focussing on the enhanced and augmented individual autonomy and self-direcrion would be a massive improvement on the status quo.