What Will The World Look Like After AGI?

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For those vast majority of us living meager lives of quiet desperation, a major change, whatever it is, is unlikely to be worse than what we already experience. SGI can't come fast enough.

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Great Video with some interesting points I didn't think of yet. And the AOT reference was brilliant 😄

It is not anymore about whether we ll witness the singularity in our lifetime.. but about whether in 5 years or in 15 years

I have been waiting for the singularity for decades - almost here. ChaptGPT is the infant

I suspect AGI would be rather god-like. Reminds me of something Voltaire reputedly said over 300 years ago, "In the beginning god created mankind in his own image.... then mankind reciprocated." He meant something else obviously but it's ironic nonetheless.

The thing that bothers me about the extinction scenario is that it isn't necessarily a bad thing. The version of humankind we are living in right now might very well be the final version of humankind evolving by itself. Look at the advances not only in AI but brain-machine interfaces, neural networks, biological computers, brain emulation, etc. AI might be able to teach us more about ourselves on a fundamental quantum level than we could achieve alone. We may very well begin to implement AI into ourselves and evolve along side it as time goes by. At the very least, that is one way we go extinct without necessarily being just wiped out completely. It might actually be better to implement this type of technology into transforming the human paradigm as time and understanding goes by rather than scapegoating it into our next enemy through fearful hatemongering.

Finally, actually using chat GPT to ask questions about starting a business I can definitely say I’m more on the positive side how things will unfold. I could be wrong, but I definitely hope I’m not. Maybe this will be the thing that ends extreme capitalism.

The problem I have with most of the discussion about AGI (and by extension ASI) is that it always assumes an AGI will have it's own drives and motivations that might be different from humanity's, but in reality it can't have - unless it is created to act in a self-interested way. I think this is a kind anthropomorphism, where we basically assume that something that is really intelligent must be self-interested like us but the reality is that it will be a *tool*, a tool that can be given specific goals or tasks to work on. In my opinion the big threat is not from an autonomous AGI running amok but from the enormous power this will give whoever controls an AGI or ASI, as they will be able to outsmart the rest of humanity combined, and once they get that power there'll be basically no way to stop them or take it away from them because the AGI/ASI will be able to anticipate every human threat that could be posed. It will be the most powerful tool and weapon that humanity has ever invented, it will be able to be used to control entire populations with just the right message at just the right time, to assuage fears or create fear, - whatever is needed for whoever controls it to foil any threat and increase their power further and further, until basically humanity is subjugated -and probably won't even know it.

One of the AGI/ASI problems that keeps me up at night is how will the classic "neighborly dispute" be resolved. Conflict of interest. Say my neighbor wants to play loud music and it drives me nuts, but he's driven nuts by being disallowed from doing this - what's the right answer? Is one of us forced to move? To where? Why one of us and not the other? Things like this stand directly in the way of anything we could consider utopia.

Good video, I like how you didn’t focus too heavy on the fears and went into detail of the pros. I honestly think a super intelligent AI would realize that working together is the key.

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After ASI takes all the work from us, what is left is life in all its colors.

I think your video reinforces my feeling that we have bit off MUCH more than we can chew and we may CHOKE on it. So many things need to happen to allow this inevitable transition to take place and ALL of them have been incredibly difficult by themselves to implement let alone trying to get them all at the same time on the same issue is virtually impossible. There is just no way to stop it now so we are passengers on a runaway train, destination unknown.

USA life duration expectation has been decreasing since the last 30 years. Stress, drugs, suicides, murders... Are we sure that new technologies help humanity? We thought that it would, just like we thought Social Medias would help the world. I don’t see a happy world where humans lack of challenge, are defeated in every task and just share an identical universal revenue.

Very good points

my mind is sore after thinking about all the possibilities and the fact that I'm 18 means I might see it actually unfold

I believe, in your use of Rome, you failed to recognize that Seneca was reflecting on his observations of what, seemingly, the vast majority of people with an opportunity for leisure chose to do. They did not choose "meaningful" pursuits of learning or challenge - they chose luxury and what we'd call decadence. it's safe to say that most humans will aspire toward that baseline because we're still the same animals now as then. There are a very few intellectuals and philosophers, but most people just want to wake up and have a nice relaxing day.