We can do that exactly in the window of “the last possible moment” of AGI.
Efforts between immortality and AGI are fungible and exclusive, or at least related in some way.
Ok, yeah—we have to succeed on BOTH alignment and immortality to keep any of us from dying.
3 and 4 are, I think, the point of the post. To the extent that work on immortality rather than alignment, we narrow the window of #2, and risk getting neither.
It’s also assuming:
We know roughly how to achieve immortality
We can do that exactly in the window of “the last possible moment” of AGI.
Efforts between immortality and AGI are fungible and exclusive, or at least related in some way.
Ok, yeah—we have to succeed on BOTH alignment and immortality to keep any of us from dying.
3 and 4 are, I think, the point of the post. To the extent that work on immortality rather than alignment, we narrow the window of #2, and risk getting neither.
Isn’t the assumption that once we successfully align AGI, it can do the work on immortality? So “we” don’t need to know how beyond that.