Yeah, I think you misunderstood me. I’m saying that we should aim to spend our money prior to AGI, because it goes a lot farther prior to AGI (e.g. we can use it to reduce x-risk) compared to after AGI where either we are all dead, or maybe we live in a transhumanist utopia where money isn’t relevant, or maybe we can buy things with money, but we still can’t buy x-risk reduction since x-risk has already been reduced a lot so the altruism we can do is much less good than the altruism we can do now.
So, “financially preparing for AGI” to me (and to pretty much any effective altruist, I claim) means “trying to make lots of money in the run-up to AI takeoff to be spent just prior to AI takeoff” and not “trying to make lots of money from AGI, so as to spend it after AI takeoff.”
Yeah, I think you misunderstood me. I’m saying that we should aim to spend our money prior to AGI, because it goes a lot farther prior to AGI (e.g. we can use it to reduce x-risk) compared to after AGI where either we are all dead, or maybe we live in a transhumanist utopia where money isn’t relevant, or maybe we can buy things with money, but we still can’t buy x-risk reduction since x-risk has already been reduced a lot so the altruism we can do is much less good than the altruism we can do now.
So, “financially preparing for AGI” to me (and to pretty much any effective altruist, I claim) means “trying to make lots of money in the run-up to AI takeoff to be spent just prior to AI takeoff” and not “trying to make lots of money from AGI, so as to spend it after AI takeoff.”