Regarding increased costs in healthcare…
I’ve worked in med device since 2008. The effort it takes to develop and commercialize med devices is continuously increasing and subsequently driving up costs. Many teams of engineers are paid well to generate binders full of documentation in support of the regulatory/compliance requirements of even simple devices. I’m sad to say that this increased effort doesn’t directly translate to better devices, but it certainly keeps a lot of people employed.
Logan, for your preferred alignment approach how likely is it that the alignment remains durable over time? A superhuman AGI will understand the choices that were made by its creators to align it. It will be capable of comparing its current programming with counterfactuals where it’s not aligned. It will also have the ability to alter its own code. So what if it determines it’s best course of action is to alter the very code that maintains it’s alignment? How would this be prevented?