Rational Utopia 2025-01-29T14:16:09.862Z

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Comment by ank on Rational Utopia · 2025-01-29T14:19:37.208Z · LW · GW

Any criticism is welcome, it’s my first post and I’ll post next on the implication for the current and future AI systems. There are some obvious implication for political systems, too. Thank you for reading

Comment by ank on ank's Shortform · 2025-01-20T14:24:24.404Z · LW · GW

RATIONAL UTOPIA DISCUSSION

I consider thinking about the extremely long-term future important if we don't want to end up in some dystopia. The question is this: if we'll eventually have almost infinite compute what should we build?

I think it's hard or impossible to answer it 100% right, so it's better to build something that gives us as many choices as possible (including choices to undo), something close to a multiverse (possibly virtual) - because this is the only way to make sure we don't permanently censor ourselves into a corner.

So it's better to purposefully build infinitely many utopias and dystopias and everything in between we can choose from freely, then to be too risk-averse and stumbling randomly into a single permanent dystopia.

The mechanism for quick and cost-free switching between universes/observers in the future human-made multiverse - is essential to get us as close as possible to some perfect utopia - it'll allow us to debug the future.

What if goodness and good deeds are gradual long-term freedom maximization for the observers? And the utopia then is a lot like a multiverse - as many observers as possible with as many freedoms as possible. 

The jinn that gives you infinitely many wishes but there is no catch - the jinn shows you the outcomes, too.

ank