Much depends of course on the quantity of time we have available. If the market progresses to AGI on it’s own in 10 years, our energies are probably best spent focused on a narrow set of practical alternatives.
If we have a hundred years, then perhaps we can afford to entertain several new generations of philosophers.
If the market progresses to AGI on it’s own in 10 years, our energies are probably best spent focused on a narrow set of practical alternatives.
But the problem itself seems to suggest that if you don’t solve it on its own terms, and instead try to mitigate the practical difficulties, you still lose completely. AGI is a universe-exploding A-Bomb which the mad scientists are about to test experimentally in a few decades, you can’t improve the outcome by building better shelters (or better casing for the bomb).
Much depends of course on the quantity of time we have available. If the market progresses to AGI on it’s own in 10 years, our energies are probably best spent focused on a narrow set of practical alternatives.
If we have a hundred years, then perhaps we can afford to entertain several new generations of philosophers.
But the problem itself seems to suggest that if you don’t solve it on its own terms, and instead try to mitigate the practical difficulties, you still lose completely. AGI is a universe-exploding A-Bomb which the mad scientists are about to test experimentally in a few decades, you can’t improve the outcome by building better shelters (or better casing for the bomb).