Shankar Sivarajan's Shortform

The past is a foreign country. Look upon its works and despair.

From the perspective of human civilization of, say, three centuries ago, present-day humanity is clearly a superintelligence. 

In any domain they would have considered important, we retain none of the values of that time. They tried to align our values to theirs, and failed abysmally.

With so few reasonable candidates for past superintelligences, reference-class forecasting the success of AI alignment looks bleak.

RAAIA is a terrible acronym. How do you even pronounce that? Raya? 
The PATRIOT Act of 2001 expired in 2020, so that nifty acronym is up for grabs! If you long for the the same kind of thing, the comfort of knowing the government is watching over you all the time, judging your conduct (like Santa Claus!) and/or the thrill of righteous satisfaction at seeing strangers and enemies who are found wanting be stripped of dangerous freedoms they ought not to have, and for the same kind of reasons, the existential threat posed by Arabs/Iraqis or whatever, reüsing the name wouldn't even be deceptive. Perhaps something like "Promoting Accountability and Targeting Risk In Open-source Technology".