Are you in your 20s-40s and diligently saving for your retirement plan? You might want to reconsider your strategy.
Saving money with the intention of spending it in 20+ years will return (almost) nothing.
Superintelligence is likely to arrive within the next 20 years, probably sooner.
If superintelligence ends up being detrimental to humanity (doom), saving money is a waste.
What if we can align superintelligence with our values?
Technological advancements will significantly increase the utility per dollar. The exponential enhancement of utility per dollar brought on by superintelligence will eventually cause the value of a dollar to collapse.
Happiness has been shown to increase with income up to a certain threshold ($ 200K per year now, roughly... (read more)
Yes, I also believe that consciousness and self-awareness will emerge if cognitive powers of AI models are sufficiently large (and that we are very close to achieving this).
It would be interesting to see how/when human gives moral rights to these…
I am very interested to see how Eliezer’s perspective has changed now in 2024..