I never even thought about super-AI dangers before coming to this site, only sub-AI dangers. However IF these claims are true, then there should be delays imposed on AI research. There would be no alternative.
It should be done in a way that would not slow down the type of progress we really want: inventing a way to defeat the problem of death using technology. The money that would be invested in inventing super powerful hyper-computer minds should instead be invested in inventing a single standard design of powerful “brain chip”. Each brain chip would contain all the information extracted from a single human brain, and could replace that brain’s existence in a durable VR environment.
It goes without saying this alternative research program would be much, much slower and more expensive than just inventing a single superhuman hyper-AI. It might take a century to invent a way to extract and back up the contents of a single human brain. And that is just too long. In fact it’s intolerable because everyone alive today would still have to die, and be lost forever.
So it would still be necessary to invent a single, narrowly focused hyper-AI, that would have only ONE task. It would be to invent a way to “transfer” human minds from perishable brains into a more durable medium. After completing that task, the hyper-AI would be shut down.
I never even thought about super-AI dangers before coming to this site, only sub-AI dangers. However IF these claims are true, then there should be delays imposed on AI research. There would be no alternative.
It should be done in a way that would not slow down the type of progress we really want: inventing a way to defeat the problem of death using technology. The money that would be invested in inventing super powerful hyper-computer minds should instead be invested in inventing a single standard design of powerful “brain chip”. Each brain chip would contain all the information extracted from a single human brain, and could replace that brain’s existence in a durable VR environment.
It goes without saying this alternative research program would be much, much slower and more expensive than just inventing a single superhuman hyper-AI. It might take a century to invent a way to extract and back up the contents of a single human brain. And that is just too long. In fact it’s intolerable because everyone alive today would still have to die, and be lost forever.
So it would still be necessary to invent a single, narrowly focused hyper-AI, that would have only ONE task. It would be to invent a way to “transfer” human minds from perishable brains into a more durable medium. After completing that task, the hyper-AI would be shut down.