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This has interesting parallels to the Friendly AI problem. For example, one could posit that material wealth might somehow be a suitable arbiter, but I can imagine plenty of situations where C2 displaces C1 (Corporate lobbying?) followed by global ecological catastrophes. Here, dollars take the place of smiley faces strewn across the solar system. Maybe the problem of a sustainably benevolent truth-seeking group is somehow the same problem as FAI on some level?
Solving Friendliness involves capturing desirable ethical guidelines in a robust and sustainable way, so I'd expect the relationship between Friendliness and sustainably benevolent truth-seeking to depend a lot on the relationship between ethics and truth-seeking. I'd agree that they are thematically related, but very much non-identical.