I think it should be much easier to get good estimate of whether cryonics would work. For example:
if we could simulate individual c. elegans then we know pretty well what kind of info we need to preserve
then we can check if we’re preserving it (even if current methods for extracting all relevant info won’t work for whole human brain because they’re way to slow)
And it’s much less risky path than doing AGI quickly. So I think it’s a mitigation it’d be good to work on, so that waiting to make AI safer is more palatable.
But we have no idea if our current cryonics works. It’s not clear to me whether it’s easier to solve that or to solve aging.
I think it should be much easier to get good estimate of whether cryonics would work. For example:
if we could simulate individual c. elegans then we know pretty well what kind of info we need to preserve
then we can check if we’re preserving it (even if current methods for extracting all relevant info won’t work for whole human brain because they’re way to slow)
And it’s much less risky path than doing AGI quickly. So I think it’s a mitigation it’d be good to work on, so that waiting to make AI safer is more palatable.