Have
one AI with godlike powers monitor everyone at all times but only
interfere if a little man commits a thought crime that poses an existential risk. Bostrom imagines that you little men could easily get used to living in
such a world, particularly once you realize that it doesn't make any
noticeable difference.
Many little men already believe that there is
literally a conscious being who watches everything they do - and - they're
cool with that. All Bostrom is suggesting is that the status quo establishment implement an unconscious mechanism that monitors everything
that you little men think, express, and potentially do.
Think about it, FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, that doesn't seem like it's worse, does it?
Here's Bostrom in conversation with Chris Anderson, the head of
TED. Bostrom suggests implementation of a system of mass government
surveillance in which each little man is fitted with necklace-like
“freedom tags” with multi-directional cameras.
Information gathered by these “freedom tags” would
be sent to “freedom centers”, where artificial intelligence monitors the
data, alerting human officers if they detect signs of a possible “black
ball” idea.
We are at greater risk from societal collapse arising
from poorly functioning social systems. We are at VASTLY greater risk from our subjugation to the corporate profit seeking egregoric structure and the specific extractive interaction with the
environment that this demonic construct demands. (our economizating virtual reality) than from some sort of Pandora's box technological black
ball.
We seem spastically incapable of eliminating fission and fusion weapons while struggling to implement and benefit from superior and safer thorium fission power generation technology. Rather than using improvements in
photovoltaics and batteries to raise the resilience of individuals and
small communities to natural disasters, we are using them to make
the overall electrical power distribution system less resilient.
Fermi's Paradox doesn't pivot on black ball technologies, rather, it pivots on primitive status seeking within a perversely incentivized archaic material culture. Intelligent species self-destruct because they fail to achieve their own possible psychological development. Fist tap Dorcas Dad.
