The framing of OP is specifically about racing just slowly enough that some specific people make the cut[1], which is absolutely a tradeoff between everyone’s lives and those specific people’s immortality. OP is explicitly indifferent about the effects on other people, including those who die sooner and those whose chances might be ruined by moving too fast for safety.
Everyone’s immortality. They don’t typically make cartoon villains like that.
The framing of OP is specifically about racing just slowly enough that some specific people make the cut[1], which is absolutely a tradeoff between everyone’s lives and those specific people’s immortality. OP is explicitly indifferent about the effects on other people, including those who die sooner and those whose chances might be ruined by moving too fast for safety.
which rests on a possibly-questionable received wisdom that AGI is a sufficient and necessary route to immediate immortality