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It’s a little surprising that a large cohort seems to consider it highly improbable that both of these can be true:
1. People with meaningful capital ownership in AI labs do recognize that in some ASI limit they might not be treated differently from the rest;
2. But they still prefer to bring about that future than to not, even if they believe it to be a net-bad one, because it makes them multi-trillionaires in the interim.
You're talking about a species that near-universally fails to keep itself from chronic overeating -- what makes you think that we're dealing with decision process so low on time preference that it's going to say no to a gamble which offers: "you get to start farming infinity wealth and status right now, for an ambiguous amount of time, probably multiple years, but afterwards there's some decent probability that you'll end up just as badly off as the average person. And if you say no, all of the same almost certainly still happens except without the part where you get to farm infinity wealth and status."
