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This is an unrestricted submarine warfare moment
Parler smells like honey
i always find it fascinating to hear people's take on science and medicine
especially when conclusions that have weight reach politically hazardous territory
Same with crypto people who doe eyedly tout “uncensorability” in their apps. Will you stand up to speech codes and natsec breathinv down your neck? I doubt it.
The end of the day all of this is ultimately either total fork of sovereignty or remaining in the pig pen of walled garden freedom.
It’s anti American but ultimately thats just what it is
If so...relative to today?
By the time we have multi-centenarians there might be whole new types of dementia that could arise.
Perhaps a better question than (do we need AGI) might be, do we need to solve protein folding before we can make meaningful progress. ie should protein folding be considered an ancillary problem or a perquisite for other solutions that must developed on the technology stack to make progress in age research
And even furthermore, things like the microbiome's influence on the brain are not yet well understood.
Seriously though, if I was bin Salman for example I would make something like this a personal priority.
If matter itself is conscious or not is hard to say, but I don't see why it isn't possible that it couldn't be.
Though then would that mean souls are the matter itself or outside of matter?, assuming the existence of souls
If, as Thiel and others have pointed out, ingenuity is slowing down, then in order to solve aging it might be necessary to have AGI invent the things for us to solve aging.
Would be curious if someone was of the opinion that we can invent the tech to solving aging ourselves and what resources would be needed to do so or if that process requires AGI first due to the barriers of solving aging being too great for us considering the resources required.
Vitrification is better than cryo as a last resort as I understand it, due to market risk.
If we solve biological aging we then would hopefully eventually be able to buy time before we can develop mind uploading, which brings forth more of the points you outlined.
I probably should have stated the roadmap to solving aging.
Something like a punchlist.
Do we need to solve mind uploading or AGI first?
What precursor technologies need to be available and what intellectual pursuits should people be pursuing and at what scale?
What political, legal and resource obstacles exist that might succeed in stopping the development of this technology?
Books like Singularity is Near are great but I wish someone would create something truly like a roadmap, with risks, prerequisites, decision-trees, capital needs and obstacles.
Is something like this capable of being run as a distributed computing project, akin to something like folding at home?
Are there any obstacles that would make recreating a GPT-3 via a distributed system impossible...other than GPT-4 coming out before completion of such a system?