Directly Ascertained Volition (DAV) to safeguard personal autonomy

In 2004 , Eliezer Yudkowsky put forward Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV) as a framework for friendly ASI to predict what we would want "if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together", and act on it. In this post, I present Directly Ascertained Volition (DAV) with an action plan as a development of CEV that allows for a more granular approach tailored to the values and needs of each specific individual. Take it personally Leaving aside for a moment the technical challenge of alignment, I believe CEV can be improved in two main areas: idealised-me versus actual-me : in CEV, the friendly ASI is asked to predict what an idealised version of me would want. However, my values and desires are likely to differ at least somewhat from those of idealised-me. For example, idealised-me may well come up with a galaxy-brained argument for dumping my family and spending eternity in meditation, but actual-me would not want that at all. Following CEV would therefore cause real harm to actual-me's values and desires. Since I can't foresee how and where idealised-me's values would diverge from actual-me's, it's not in my interest to let idea