I sometimes worry about a scenario where Sam Altman’s kid gets cancer or Xi Jinping gets AGI-pilled right before getting a terminal prognosis. What might someone in power do, if they thought that short-term recklessness was the only path of hope?
Well, the MIT TR article directly mentions that Sam Altman himself is one of the first 25 donors to Nectome (paid $10,000), and quoted saying “I assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud”. So in that scenario perhaps it would lead to the opposite outcome, with him suddenly investing a lot in cryo and being more long-term-focused.
Well, the MIT TR article directly mentions that Sam Altman himself is one of the first 25 donors to Nectome (paid $10,000), and quoted saying “I assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud”. So in that scenario perhaps it would lead to the opposite outcome, with him suddenly investing a lot in cryo and being more long-term-focused.