I used to think aligned ASI would be good for all sentient beings; now I don't know what to think

Cross-posted to the EA Forum . Epistemic status: Speculating with no central thesis. This post is less of an argument and more of a meditation. A decade ago, before there was a visible path to AGI and before AI alignment was a significant research field, I figured the solution to the alignment problem would look something like Coherent Extrapolated Volition . I figured we’d find a way to get the…