This commentary strikes the right balance between necessary/inevitable progress toward AGI and one or more common goods (however you define that—-even as a libe

This commentary strikes the right balance between necessary/inevitable progress toward AGI and one or more common goods (however you define that—-even as a libertarian). The other more difficult question though is behind the screen—-how do we achieve the right balance between what we believe is the common good? How will we (liberal democratic belief systems) evaluate our version of the common good against other versions of the common good: what “they” (autocratic, theocratic, …) believe is the common good? No one society/culture can rationally adjudicate this decision or make any decisions stick. Unfortunately this has already become yet another version of “warfare by other means”. I personally hope that a pragmatic inclusive liberal democratic tradition gains a strong upper hand. I want my AGI to read and embed J Dewey, Gh Mead, J Rawls, J Habermas, O Dasgupta, RA Posner, and R Rorty. But here will inevitably be battles among AGI systems, perhaps on behalf of one or another human culture; perhaps not. Both scenarios are equally frightening. The Chinese proverb of “living in interesting times” applies in force.