[ExI] How new AI economics might change our systems

[John Clark]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 4:57 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

* > I'm starting to think that this 'alignment with humanity' idea is a red
> herring. As spike says, humanity is not aligned with itself, so how can
> anything else be?*
>

*In the 1860s in the US white people tried very hard but they couldn't find
a way to get black people stay "aligned" with the wishes of white people.
And black people were not smarter than white people, and they did not
become even smarter every day. *

*Even if you could find a list of commandments that all humans agreed an AI
should follow (a very big if) actually engineering an AI to scrupulously
continue to obey those commandments regardless of how intelligent it became
would be impossible. Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics led to some very
entertaining stories, but they're just not realistic.  *

*> The type of people that insist on controlling other people, trying to
> restrict what they can do, telling them what to think and believe, are the
> ones who have the most to lose from powerful and superintelligent AIs. They
> see such AIs as a threat to their dominance, and they're right.*


*I agree with that, and I think that ideally the only people that should be
entrusted with power are those that don't want it.  At one time a lot of
people thought Civil War General Sherman should be President, but he gave a
speech at the Republican nominating Convention in 1884 and said"*

* "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected."*

*It sounds like Sherman would've been a great president! He should've been
locked inside the Oval Office and refused all food and water until he
started issuing orders. *

*John K Clark*
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