Let's be the sort of species that aliens wouldn't fear the way we fear paperclippers.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/16/being-nicer-than-clippy/

This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

(Though: note that I haven't put the summary post on the podcast yet.)