The wealthy are not powerful enough to “hoard” treatments, because Medicare et al represent the government, which has a monopoly on violence and incentives to not allow such hoarding.
That’s naive. If a private has obedient ASI, they also have a monopoly on violence now. If labour has become superfluous, states have lost all incentive to care about the opinion of people.
I think worlds with the tools to treat most causes of human death ranks strictly higher than a world without those tools. In the same way that a world with running water ranks above worlds without it. Even today not everyone benefits from running water. If you could go back in time would you campaign against developing pipes and pumps because you believed only the rich would ever have running water? (Which was true for a period of time)
I would campaign against lead pipes and support the goths in destroying Rome which likely improved human futures over an alternative of widespread lead piping.
Running water doesn’t create the conditions to permanently disempower almost everyone, AGI does. What I’m talking about isn’t a situation in which initially only the rich benefit but then the tech gets cheaper and trickles down. It’s a permanent trap that destroys democracy and capitalism as we know them.
That’s naive. If a private has obedient ASI, they also have a monopoly on violence now. If labour has become superfluous, states have lost all incentive to care about the opinion of people.
I think worlds with the tools to treat most causes of human death ranks strictly higher than a world without those tools. In the same way that a world with running water ranks above worlds without it. Even today not everyone benefits from running water. If you could go back in time would you campaign against developing pipes and pumps because you believed only the rich would ever have running water? (Which was true for a period of time)
I would campaign against lead pipes and support the goths in destroying Rome which likely improved human futures over an alternative of widespread lead piping.
Running water doesn’t create the conditions to permanently disempower almost everyone, AGI does. What I’m talking about isn’t a situation in which initially only the rich benefit but then the tech gets cheaper and trickles down. It’s a permanent trap that destroys democracy and capitalism as we know them.