The idea is the faster safety is solved, the faster we can scale capabilities safely, which increases the growth rate of the economy from ~3% to ~100% and makes people immortal. If people want to maximize something like their discounted log(consumption) over the next 100 years, a wartime investment is warranted unless you think we couldn’t solve AI safety well enough to cure aging and automate the economy in a few decades.
I’m definitely on the pessimistic side, but yes I can see that spending more on safety may shorten the timeline for solving death which is probably a good thing if it doesn’t also increase s-risks.
The idea is the faster safety is solved, the faster we can scale capabilities safely, which increases the growth rate of the economy from ~3% to ~100% and makes people immortal. If people want to maximize something like their discounted log(consumption) over the next 100 years, a wartime investment is warranted unless you think we couldn’t solve AI safety well enough to cure aging and automate the economy in a few decades.
I’m definitely on the pessimistic side, but yes I can see that spending more on safety may shorten the timeline for solving death which is probably a good thing if it doesn’t also increase s-risks.