I have expressed versions of this Statement, or at least parts of it, to those close to me. They are not in the EA or LW communities and so I have to rephrase a lot. Mostly along the lines of, “One way or another, the last generation to die of old age has most likely already been born. I’m not quite sure which one, but if we manage to survive the century as a species, then I expect it’s my own, and that my nieces and nephew will be able to live for millennia. I hope I’m wrong about which generation it is.”
For me, both AI and medicine are far outside my areas of expertise, so I’m focusing on other problems that I have a better chance of influencing, hence the passive framing. This is even more true for my family members.
I have expressed versions of this Statement, or at least parts of it, to those close to me. They are not in the EA or LW communities and so I have to rephrase a lot. Mostly along the lines of, “One way or another, the last generation to die of old age has most likely already been born. I’m not quite sure which one, but if we manage to survive the century as a species, then I expect it’s my own, and that my nieces and nephew will be able to live for millennia. I hope I’m wrong about which generation it is.”
For me, both AI and medicine are far outside my areas of expertise, so I’m focusing on other problems that I have a better chance of influencing, hence the passive framing. This is even more true for my family members.