We almost certainly want to eventually do uploading, if nothing else because that’s probably how you avoid involuntary-preheatdeath-death. It might be the best way to do supra-genomic HIA, but I would rather leave that up to the next generation, because it seems both morally fraught and technically difficult. It’s far from clear to me that we ever want to make ASI; why ever do that rather than just have more human/humane personal growth and descendants? (I agree with the urgency of all the mundane horrible stuff that’s always happening; but my guess is we can get out of that stuff with HIA before it’s safe to make ASI. Alignment is harder than curing world hunger and stopping all war, probably (glib genie jokes aside).)
We almost certainly want to eventually do uploading, if nothing else because that’s probably how you avoid involuntary-preheatdeath-death. It might be the best way to do supra-genomic HIA, but I would rather leave that up to the next generation, because it seems both morally fraught and technically difficult. It’s far from clear to me that we ever want to make ASI; why ever do that rather than just have more human/humane personal growth and descendants? (I agree with the urgency of all the mundane horrible stuff that’s always happening; but my guess is we can get out of that stuff with HIA before it’s safe to make ASI. Alignment is harder than curing world hunger and stopping all war, probably (glib genie jokes aside).)