It may be hard to faithfully imitate a human for 1000 years (particularly since that sounds like quite a distributional shift / it’s not even clear what the right answer is since no human has lived for 1000 years). I believe we’re in agreement on this.
Simulating a human for shorter times on multiple problems in parallel is powerful, but presumably comes at a steep capabilities cost relative to other easier options. So it is worth exploring gains from safe augmentation beyond pure speedup.
Also, at some point we want a plan for scaling qualitatively past human level.
It may be hard to faithfully imitate a human for 1000 years (particularly since that sounds like quite a distributional shift / it’s not even clear what the right answer is since no human has lived for 1000 years). I believe we’re in agreement on this.
Simulating a human for shorter times on multiple problems in parallel is powerful, but presumably comes at a steep capabilities cost relative to other easier options. So it is worth exploring gains from safe augmentation beyond pure speedup.
Also, at some point we want a plan for scaling qualitatively past human level.