If changing human nature or building AGI is impossible, we could still explore how close we can get to this. Research the most efficient form of education and group cooperation. Research the most powerful forms of non-general artificial intelligence, design better expert systems, etc. These things could still be enough meta to influence many other aspects of human life.
Instead of nanotech, we could improve other forms of automated technology. Even without the ability to manipulate atoms, building things automatically from very small (but greater than nano-) pieces could be awesome. Instead of bio-immortality, we could still invent better medicine, construct artificial limbs, extend life.
I did not want to ruin your thought experiment, just to say that in given areas less than perfect could still be great. Now let’s assume that we already did what we could there, and that there is no artificial intelligence smart enough to give us advice about the strategy the humankind should choose. What is next?
we could still explore how close we can get to this. Research the most efficient form of education and group cooperation. Research the most powerful forms of non-general artificial intelligence, design better expert systems, etc.
That would mean a kind of intelligence explosion quite soon. For the sake of this discussion, we should freeze any kind of techno progress, I think.
It seems to me that this “Research the most efficient form of education and group cooperation. Research the most powerful forms of non-general artificial intelligence, design better expert systems, etc. These things could still be enough meta to influence many other aspects of human life.”
is what Leverage Reserach is mostly about.
If changing human nature or building AGI is impossible, we could still explore how close we can get to this. Research the most efficient form of education and group cooperation. Research the most powerful forms of non-general artificial intelligence, design better expert systems, etc. These things could still be enough meta to influence many other aspects of human life.
Instead of nanotech, we could improve other forms of automated technology. Even without the ability to manipulate atoms, building things automatically from very small (but greater than nano-) pieces could be awesome. Instead of bio-immortality, we could still invent better medicine, construct artificial limbs, extend life.
I did not want to ruin your thought experiment, just to say that in given areas less than perfect could still be great. Now let’s assume that we already did what we could there, and that there is no artificial intelligence smart enough to give us advice about the strategy the humankind should choose. What is next?
That would mean a kind of intelligence explosion quite soon. For the sake of this discussion, we should freeze any kind of techno progress, I think.
It seems to me that this “Research the most efficient form of education and group cooperation. Research the most powerful forms of non-general artificial intelligence, design better expert systems, etc. These things could still be enough meta to influence many other aspects of human life.” is what Leverage Reserach is mostly about.