I think if there was an FAI, and it successfully built utopia, it would have to solve this problem of convincing us that it did (?using something like the Arthur/Merlin protocol?)
edit: I realize that there is a nearly limitless room for trickery here, I am just saying that if I had to define FAI success it would have to be in terms of some sort of convincing game with asymmetric computing power setup, how else would we even do it? Importantly, Merlin is allowed to lie.
I've been returning to my "reduced impact AI" approach, and currently working on some idea.
What I need is some ideas on features that might distinguish between an excellent FAI outcome, and a disaster. The more abstract and general the ideas, the better. Anyone got some suggestions? Don't worry about quality at this point, originality is more prized!
I'm looking for something generic that is easy to measure. At a crude level, if the only options were "papercliper" vs FAI, then we could distinguish those worlds by counting steel content.
So basically some more or less objective measure that has a higher proportion of good outcomes than the baseline.