I’ve only skimmed the post so the present comment could be missing the mark (sorry if so), but I think you might find it worthwhile/interesting/fun to think (afresh, in this context) about how come humans often don’t wirehead and probably wouldn’t wirehead even with much much longer lives (in particular, much longer childhoods and research careers), and whether the kind of AI that would do hard math/philosophy/tech-development/science will also be like that.[1][2]
I feel like clarifying that I’d inside-view say P( the future is profoundly non-human (in a bad sense) | AI (which is not pretty much a synthetic human) smarter than humans is created this century ) >0.98 despite this.
I’ve only skimmed the post so the present comment could be missing the mark (sorry if so), but I think you might find it worthwhile/interesting/fun to think (afresh, in this context) about how come humans often don’t wirehead and probably wouldn’t wirehead even with much much longer lives (in particular, much longer childhoods and research careers), and whether the kind of AI that would do hard math/philosophy/tech-development/science will also be like that.[1][2]
I’m not going to engage further on this here, but if you’d like to have a chat about this, feel free to dm me.
I feel like clarifying that I’d inside-view say P( the future is profoundly non-human (in a bad sense) | AI (which is not pretty much a synthetic human) smarter than humans is created this century ) >0.98 despite this.