Parents have skin in the game when it comes to their children.
To me it seems unlikely that the nanotech necessary to do the massive somatic editing needed to replicate the effects of germline editing would not come far ahead of the tech necessary to just upload someone’s brain into a computer. And if you have that, why would you even bother with the huge limitations of biological intelligence?
I suppose it’s possible we might have some global ban on further improvements to computer intelligence, but in that case why wouldn’t you just genetically engineer people capable of solving alignment? Why hang around at the proteins & genes level of tech long enough to make massive somatic editing work?
EDIT: I have updated my views about the viability of somatic editing substantially in the last month. I will write more about this in the near future.
Parents have skin in the game when it comes to their children.
only good parents do. the ratio of evil parents is frighteningly high, ones who don’t care about their children’s future as people and just want their kids to be a copy of themselves.
why would you even bother with the huge limitations of biological intelligence?
because once you solve alignment it turns out proteins and genes are a ridiculously good base to start on, uploads are a fundamentally silly idea because computers of today suck because of not being biological enough. dna computers could be incomparably more powerful at similar wattage.
Parents have skin in the game when it comes to their children.
To me it seems unlikely that the nanotech necessary to do the massive somatic editing needed to replicate the effects of germline editing would not come far ahead of the tech necessary to just upload someone’s brain into a computer. And if you have that, why would you even bother with the huge limitations of biological intelligence?
I suppose it’s possible we might have some global ban on further improvements to computer intelligence, but in that case why wouldn’t you just genetically engineer people capable of solving alignment? Why hang around at the proteins & genes level of tech long enough to make massive somatic editing work?
EDIT: I have updated my views about the viability of somatic editing substantially in the last month. I will write more about this in the near future.
only good parents do. the ratio of evil parents is frighteningly high, ones who don’t care about their children’s future as people and just want their kids to be a copy of themselves.
because once you solve alignment it turns out proteins and genes are a ridiculously good base to start on, uploads are a fundamentally silly idea because computers of today suck because of not being biological enough. dna computers could be incomparably more powerful at similar wattage.