Honestly I don’t think that in the aftermath of a full-scale nuclear war or large asteroid impact any government would be funneling money into AGI. The entire supply chain would be broken, and they’d be scrambling just to keep basic life support on. This is mostly a nitpick though, as I agree with your points and I think this is sufficiently unlikely as to not matter.
The bias when I wrote this was I was thinking just a smidge into the future. A nuclear war literally tomorrow or an asteroid impact, sure.
But once narrow AIs that run robotics pretty well are available? Early proto AGIs with the source code stored on some flash drive or tape that survives the war? Sounds like a plot to a science fiction novel.
Honestly I don’t think that in the aftermath of a full-scale nuclear war or large asteroid impact any government would be funneling money into AGI. The entire supply chain would be broken, and they’d be scrambling just to keep basic life support on. This is mostly a nitpick though, as I agree with your points and I think this is sufficiently unlikely as to not matter.
The bias when I wrote this was I was thinking just a smidge into the future. A nuclear war literally tomorrow or an asteroid impact, sure.
But once narrow AIs that run robotics pretty well are available? Early proto AGIs with the source code stored on some flash drive or tape that survives the war? Sounds like a plot to a science fiction novel.