The vast majority of people is both incapable of and uninterested in creating new technology OR doing science (and their incapability supports their lack of interest). So, if nerds move to nerdtopia taking some already-deadly technologies with them, the remaining world will never create something AI-like… well, given that newborns with nerds’ skills are taken away early. People are generally stupid—not only in the sense of exhibiting specific biases discussed by Eliezer but also in the sense of lack of both curiosity and larger-than-three working memory (or larger-than-120 IQ, whitherever you prefer) in the majority (and larger-than-two/larger-than-100 in a big group). Having intelligence—IQ above roughly 120 or any isomorphic measure—is something so rare that from standard p<0.05 view it’s inexistent (Bell’s curve, 100 as mean, 10 as sigma).
The vast majority of people is both incapable of and uninterested in creating new technology OR doing science (and their incapability supports their lack of interest). So, if nerds move to nerdtopia taking some already-deadly technologies with them, the remaining world will never create something AI-like… well, given that newborns with nerds’ skills are taken away early. People are generally stupid—not only in the sense of exhibiting specific biases discussed by Eliezer but also in the sense of lack of both curiosity and larger-than-three working memory (or larger-than-120 IQ, whitherever you prefer) in the majority (and larger-than-two/larger-than-100 in a big group). Having intelligence—IQ above roughly 120 or any isomorphic measure—is something so rare that from standard p<0.05 view it’s inexistent (Bell’s curve, 100 as mean, 10 as sigma).