Tamay Besiroglu

So like I would just recommend that you should just discount.

Mm-hmm.

future not be like not for like a moral reason not because like the future is worth less or something but because it's just very hard to anticipate the effects of your actions in the near term i think there are things you can do that seem like they would be beneficial like for example you could trying to try to align your present ai systems to uh value the things that you're talking about like they should like value happiness and they should like dislike suffering or something

You might want to support like political solutions that would – like basically you might want to build up the capacity so that in the future if you notice something like this happening, then we might have some ability to intervene.

Like maybe you would think about the prospect of, well, eventually we're going to maybe colonize other stars and like civilization might become very large and communication delays might be very long between different places.

And in that case, competitive pressures between different –

local cultures might become much stronger because it's harder to centrally coordinate.

That's right.

And so in that world, you might expect competition to take over in a stronger way.

And if you think the result of that is going to be a lot of suffering, maybe you would try to stop that.

Again, I think at this point, it's very far from obvious that trying to say limit competition is actually a good idea.

I would probably think it's a bad idea.

But maybe in the future, we will receive some information

And we'll be like, oh, like we were wrong.

Actually, we should stop this.

And then maybe you want to have the capacity so that you can make that decision.

Right.

But that's a very hard, like that's a nebulous thing.

How do you build that up?

Well, I don't know.