“ASIs will not leave just a little sunlight for Earth ” by Eliezer Yudkowsky

A common claim among e/accs is that, since the solar system is big, Earth will be left alone by superintelligences. A simple rejoinder is that just because Bernard Arnault has $170 billion, does not mean that he'll give you $77.18.Earth subtends only 4.54e-10 = 0.0000000454% of the angular area around the Sun, according to GPT-o1.[1]Asking an ASI to leave a hole in a Dyson Shell, so that Earth could get some sunlight not transformed to infrared, would cost It 4.5e-10 of Its income. This is like asking Bernard Arnalt to send you $77.18 of his $170 billion of wealth.In real life, Arnalt says no.But wouldn't humanity be able to trade with ASIs, and pay Them to give us sunlight? This is like planning to get $77 from Bernard Arnalt by selling him an Oreo cookie.To extract $77 from Arnalt, it's not a sufficient [...] The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 23rd, 2024 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/F8sfrbPjCQj4KwJqn/asis-will-not-leave-just-a-little-sunlight-for-earth --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.