I agree that potentially the benefits can go to everyone. The point is that as the person pursuing AGI you are making the choice for everyone else.
The asymmetry is that if you do something that creates risk for everyone else, I believe that does single you out as an aggressor? While conversely, enforcing norms that prevent such risky behavior seems justified. The fact that by default people are mortal is tragic, but doesn’t have much bearing here. (You’d still be free to pursue life-extension technology in other ways, perhaps including limited AI tools).
Ideally, of course, there’d be some sort of democratic process here that let’s people in aggregate make informed (!) choices. In the real world, it’s unclear what a good solution here would be. What we have right now is the big labs creating facts that society has trouble catching up with, which I think many people are reasonably uncomfortable with.
I agree that potentially the benefits can go to everyone. The point is that as the person pursuing AGI you are making the choice for everyone else.
The asymmetry is that if you do something that creates risk for everyone else, I believe that does single you out as an aggressor? While conversely, enforcing norms that prevent such risky behavior seems justified. The fact that by default people are mortal is tragic, but doesn’t have much bearing here. (You’d still be free to pursue life-extension technology in other ways, perhaps including limited AI tools).
Ideally, of course, there’d be some sort of democratic process here that let’s people in aggregate make informed (!) choices. In the real world, it’s unclear what a good solution here would be. What we have right now is the big labs creating facts that society has trouble catching up with, which I think many people are reasonably uncomfortable with.