#1 and #2 are serious concerns, but there’s not really much I can do about them anyways. #3 doesn’t make any sense to me.
You’ll probably be able to buy planets post-AGI for the price of houses today
Right, and that seems like OP’s point? Because I can do this, I shouldn’t spend money on consumption goods today and in fact should gather as much money as I can now? Certainly massive stellar objects post-AGI will be more useful to me than a house is pre-agi?
As to this:
By contrast, *very few people are spending money to influence AGI development right now. If you want future beings to have certain inalienable rights, or if you want the galaxies to be used in such-and-such a way, you can lobby AGI companies right now to change their spec/constitution/RLHF, and to make commitments about what values they’ll instill, etc.
I guess I just don’t really believe I have much control over that at all. Further, I can specifically invest in things likely to be important parts of the AGI production function, like semiconductors, etc.
On the contrary, massive stellar objects post-AGI will be less useful to you than a house is today, as far as your selfish personal preferences are concerned. Consider the difference in your quality of life living in a nice house vs. skimping and saving 50% and living in a cheap apartment so you can save money. Next, consider the difference in your quality of life owning your own planet (replete with superintelligent servants) vs. owning merely half a planet. What can you do with a whole planet that you can’t do with half a planet? Not that much.
Re: 1 and 2: Whether you can do something about them matters but doesn’t undermine my argument. You should still discount the value of your savings by their probability.
However little control you have over influencing AGI development, you’ll have orders of magnitude less control over influencing the cosmos / society / etc. after AGI.
On the contrary, massive stellar objects post-AGI will be less useful to you than a house is today, as far as your selfish personal preferences are concerned. Consider the difference in your quality of life living in a nice house vs. skimping and saving 50% and living in a cheap apartment so you can save money. Next, consider the difference in your quality of life owning your own planet (replete with superintelligent servants) vs. owning merely half a planet. What can you do with a whole planet that you can’t do with half a planet? Not that much.
It matters if it means I can live twice as long, because I can purchase more negentropy with which to maintain whatever lifestyle I have.
Good point. If your utility is linear or close to linear in lifespan even at very large scales, and lifespan is based on how much money you have rather than e.g. a right guaranteed by the government, then a planetworth could be almost twice as valuable as half a planetworth.
#1 and #2 are serious concerns, but there’s not really much I can do about them anyways. #3 doesn’t make any sense to me.
Right, and that seems like OP’s point? Because I can do this, I shouldn’t spend money on consumption goods today and in fact should gather as much money as I can now? Certainly massive stellar objects post-AGI will be more useful to me than a house is pre-agi?
As to this:
I guess I just don’t really believe I have much control over that at all. Further, I can specifically invest in things likely to be important parts of the AGI production function, like semiconductors, etc.
On the contrary, massive stellar objects post-AGI will be less useful to you than a house is today, as far as your selfish personal preferences are concerned. Consider the difference in your quality of life living in a nice house vs. skimping and saving 50% and living in a cheap apartment so you can save money. Next, consider the difference in your quality of life owning your own planet (replete with superintelligent servants) vs. owning merely half a planet. What can you do with a whole planet that you can’t do with half a planet? Not that much.
Re: 1 and 2: Whether you can do something about them matters but doesn’t undermine my argument. You should still discount the value of your savings by their probability.
However little control you have over influencing AGI development, you’ll have orders of magnitude less control over influencing the cosmos / society / etc. after AGI.
It matters if it means I can live twice as long, because I can purchase more negentropy with which to maintain whatever lifestyle I have.
Good point. If your utility is linear or close to linear in lifespan even at very large scales, and lifespan is based on how much money you have rather than e.g. a right guaranteed by the government, then a planetworth could be almost twice as valuable as half a planetworth.
(My selfish utility is not close to linear in lifespan at very large scales, I think.)