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Yeah absolutely, these ones focused in trying to study alignment because it seemed like the most compelling problem for various reasons, but these ones had an expectation that there would be beings out fighting the immediate issues, just as there are beings with climate change as their cause area, or biosafety. People who decide their cause area is the only one that matters are being silly at best.
Incidentally, consciousness / sentience are kind of side notes, properties intelligent systems are capable, but not a requirement to be smart enough to tile the light cone with processors grinding out ever higher prime numbers.
I don't agree. Without consciousness / sentience, we don't have any moral limits on what acts we can take to eliminate any threat. With consciousness / sentience, any suffering is a moral issue.
Side notes to the question, "Is it capable of mulching our species and paving the light cone, or can we keep sleeping on this?" Consciousness does not mean it can, and a lack does not mean it cannot. Totally orthogonal axis.
Disagree that it is totally orthogonal. What and when can and should be done is dependent on the presence of consciousness / sentience.
"Is it conscious?" is totally orthogonal to, "Can it pave the light cone?"