Duplicate of /strutheo/if-you-had-to-vote-in-an-election-w-08792c00e161 .
I just figured it was worth bringing up to date given recent developments. /strutheo/who-would-have-to-be-running-for-ma
1,000Just AGI, not ASI?
Also, Josh made some good points on the previous poll:
"I feel like people are voting as though the election would bring such an AGI into existence, which is not how elections work. :)
If a paperclip-maximizing AGI already exists, we're all already dead before the election, making the election itself and any votes in it a moot point. If a paperclip-maximizing AGI does not exist, the vote would be null and void.
So, in a hypothetical race between a non-existent paperclip-maximizing AGI and Trump, voting for the non-existent entity is at the very least equivalent to not voting / voting "None of the Above" / etc, would give the country an idea of how little Trump is wanted, and might also raise awareness and conversations about the existence of paperclip-maximizing AGI and thus lower p(doom), all of which makes it an improvement.
(Also, it's amusing to think about how a paperclip-maximizing AGI would be ineligible on multiple grounds; while some of these are true for other hypotheticals, some of them seem particularly true for AGI:
- Not 35 years old
- Not a "natural born Citizen"
- Not a resident of the United States for at least fourteen Years
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It's all a matter of how brazen the AGI would be.
I imagine it wouldn't pay energy companies to stop building wind turbines since they're "ugly".