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Constitutionality is largely irrelevant. All that matters is whether or not five people on the supreme court believe something is constitutional or not, and that seems to be mostly down to the platform of the party that put them in their position.

1c.trout
I think that's a bit reductionist. There are a number of ideologies/theories regarding how law should be interpreted and what role courts are meant to play etc. Parties certainly pick justices who have legal ideologies that favor the outcomes parties want, regarding current political issues. But I think those legal ideologies are more stable in the justices than their tendency to rule the way desired by the party which appointed them.

Define "too much"? The spread is whatever another entity is willing to accept to trade with you and, almost by definition, it is exactly the correct amount.

3benjaminikuta
It's not about being "correct". It's just that if it's really wide, it might not even be worth it.

Is it "alignment" if, instead of AGI killing us all, humans change what it is to be human so much that we are almost unrecognizable to our current selves?

I can foresee a lot of scenarios where humans offload more and more of their cognitive capacity to silicon, but they are still "human" - does that count as a solution to the alignment problem?

If we all decide to upload our consciousness to the cloud, and become fast enough and smart enough to stop any dumb AGI before it can get started  is THAT a solution?

Even today, I offload more and more of my "se... (read more)

2Yonatan Cale
I personally like the idea of uploading ourselves (and asked about it here). Note that even if we are uploaded - if someone creates an unaligned AGI that is MUCH SMARTER than us, it will still probably kill us. "keeping up" in the sense of improving/changing/optimizing so quickly that we'd compete with software that is specifically designed (perhaps by itself) to do that - seems like a solution I wouldn't be happy with. As much as I'm ok with posting my profile picture on Facebook, there are some degrees of self modification that I'm not ok with
-1Noosphere89
Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner here. Strong up vote.