I think if there are 40 IQ humanoid creatures (even having been shaped somewhat by the genes of existing humans) running around in habitats being very excited and happy about what the AIs are doing, this counts as an existentially bad ending comparable to death. I think if everyone’s brains are destructively scanned and stored on a hard-drive that eventually decays in the year 1 billion having never been run, this is effectively dead. I could go on if it would be helpful.
Do you think these sorts of scenarios are worth describing as “everyone is effectively dead”?
Do you think these sorts of scenarios are worth describing as “everyone is effectively dead”?
Not when you’re obviously addressing people who don’t necessarily know the details of the scenarios you’re talking about, no… because the predictions could be anything, and “effectively dead” could mean anything. There are lots of people on Less Wrong who’d say that IQ 150 humans living in ease and comfort were “effectively dead” if they didn’t also have the option to destroy that ease and comfort.
I think if there are 40 IQ humanoid creatures (even having been shaped somewhat by the genes of existing humans) running around in habitats being very excited and happy about what the AIs are doing, this counts as an existentially bad ending comparable to death. I think if everyone’s brains are destructively scanned and stored on a hard-drive that eventually decays in the year 1 billion having never been run, this is effectively dead. I could go on if it would be helpful.
Do you think these sorts of scenarios are worth describing as “everyone is effectively dead”?
I see. I at first assumed your ‘effectively dead’ meant ‘biologically alive, but certain to die soon’.
That counts too!
Not when you’re obviously addressing people who don’t necessarily know the details of the scenarios you’re talking about, no… because the predictions could be anything, and “effectively dead” could mean anything. There are lots of people on Less Wrong who’d say that IQ 150 humans living in ease and comfort were “effectively dead” if they didn’t also have the option to destroy that ease and comfort.