Cooperating with aliens and AGIs: An ECL explainer — EA Forum

Summary • Evidential cooperation in large worlds (ECL) is a proposed way of making gains through cooperating with agents across the universe/multiver…

Summary Evidential cooperation in large worlds (ECL) is a proposed way of making gains through cooperating with agents across the universe/multiverse. Such cooperation does not involve physical, or causal, interaction. ECL is potentially a crucial consideration because we may be able to do more good this way compared to the “standard” (i.e., causal) way of optimizing for our values. The core idea of ECL can be summarized as: According to non-causal decision theories, my decisions relevantly “influence” what others who are similar to me do, even if they never observe my behavior (or the…

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