I kind of agree with the statement, but I don’t quite agree with the implications: my timelines are already quite short and I think that if we contract things more, we pay a high cost in risk for little benifit unless you expect yourself and many of your loved ones to die before then. In which case, what’s the point of discussing it?
Now if timelines were long, then yeah, it would make sense to accelerate AI insofar as it contributed to the continued surival of me and my loved ones. That could be through creating a FAI, or it could be via improved longevity tech, better disease treatment, improved cryonics, mind uploading etc. Which many people in this community are quite in favour of, even now.
Fifth observation: Believing in the Statement is compatible with folk morality and revealed preferences of most of the population.
I think you underestimate how weird people find the desire for immortality. Why does pretty much no-one sign up for cryonics? Because it is unlikely to work? Nah, the odd’s are maybe a few percent for current tech. Plenty of people should be willing to take a bet for continued life at those odds. Is it because of cost? Again, no. Life insurance isn’t that expensive. The real reason is that it is weird.
It’s weird because it’s not what anyone else thinks of immortality. Freezing your corpse isn’t the same as being young forever in the present.
In reality, humans have been pondering immortality since time immemorial. A lot of our myths involve immortals and some humans becoming immortals. A lot of our religions assume there’s an immortal afterlife.
I kind of agree with the statement, but I don’t quite agree with the implications: my timelines are already quite short and I think that if we contract things more, we pay a high cost in risk for little benifit unless you expect yourself and many of your loved ones to die before then. In which case, what’s the point of discussing it?
Now if timelines were long, then yeah, it would make sense to accelerate AI insofar as it contributed to the continued surival of me and my loved ones. That could be through creating a FAI, or it could be via improved longevity tech, better disease treatment, improved cryonics, mind uploading etc. Which many people in this community are quite in favour of, even now.
I think you underestimate how weird people find the desire for immortality. Why does pretty much no-one sign up for cryonics? Because it is unlikely to work? Nah, the odd’s are maybe a few percent for current tech. Plenty of people should be willing to take a bet for continued life at those odds. Is it because of cost? Again, no. Life insurance isn’t that expensive. The real reason is that it is weird.
It’s weird because it’s not what anyone else thinks of immortality. Freezing your corpse isn’t the same as being young forever in the present.
In reality, humans have been pondering immortality since time immemorial. A lot of our myths involve immortals and some humans becoming immortals. A lot of our religions assume there’s an immortal afterlife.