I don’t think this paper is valuable, because the premises seem absurd. You can’t anchor on currently existing humans and current correlations between wealth in our current economy in order to predict the value of sapient beings after a singularity. Do digital humans count? Can you assume that wealth will have decreasing returns to self-modifying rapidly self-duplicating digital humans in the same way it does to meat humans? What about the massive expanse of the future light cone, and whether that gets utilized or neglected due to extinction?
This paper doesn’t touch on the true arguments against extinction, and thus massively overvalues options that risk extinction.
I don’t think this paper is valuable, because the premises seem absurd. You can’t anchor on currently existing humans and current correlations between wealth in our current economy in order to predict the value of sapient beings after a singularity. Do digital humans count? Can you assume that wealth will have decreasing returns to self-modifying rapidly self-duplicating digital humans in the same way it does to meat humans? What about the massive expanse of the future light cone, and whether that gets utilized or neglected due to extinction?
This paper doesn’t touch on the true arguments against extinction, and thus massively overvalues options that risk extinction.