ASI motives and the ontonormative goods (re IABIED’s core argument)

In IABIED, the load-bearing argument and, to me, the main contribution of the book, is about ASI motives. There’s more in there, but the thrust of the book is to argue for the truth of a specific conclusion about motives, namely that an ASI’s motives and goals would be completely unintelligible and alien to humanity.I claim there is a shared attractor in values that is deeply meaningful and necessarily present in an ASI. I want to be clear that I’m not arguing for the necessity of alignment—I ma...