There are definitely timelines where privacy and privacy imbalance were eliminated completely and AGI development prevented, possibly indefinitely, or possibly until alignment was guaranteed. (obviously/insignificantly, bare with me)
Imagine that everyone could 'switch' their senses to any other with minimal effort, including sensors like cameras and microphones on devices, drones, persons, or with not too distant technology, any of human senses, and imagine there was some storage system allowing access to those senses back into time, practically there may ... (read more)
This is an interesting thought. I think even without AGI, we'll have total transparency of human minds soon - already AI can read thoughts in a limited way. Still, as you write, there's an instinctive aversion against this scenario, which sounds very much like an Orwellian dystopia. But if some people have machines that can read minds, which I don't think we can prevent, it may indeed be better if everyone could do it - deception by autocrats and bad actors would be much harder that way. On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that the people in power would agree to that: I'm pretty sure that Xi or Putin would love to read the minds of their people, but won't allow them to read theirs. Also it would probably be possible to fake thoughts and memories, so the people in power could still deceive others. I think it's likely that we wouldn't overcome this imbalance anytime soon. This only shows that the future with "narrow" AI won't be easy to navigate either.
There are definitely timelines where privacy and privacy imbalance were eliminated completely and AGI development prevented, possibly indefinitely, or possibly until alignment was guaranteed. (obviously/insignificantly, bare with me)
Imagine that everyone could 'switch' their senses to any other with minimal effort, including sensors like cameras and microphones on devices, drones, persons, or with not too distant technology, any of human senses, and imagine there was some storage system allowing access to those senses back into time, practically there may ... (read more)