One of the books I read on the topic argued that a proto-Industrial Revolution was getting started with the iron and coal deposits in, IIRC, the Sung, but then the emperor/empire took them over as a state monopoly, which ended that.
There is the potential for governments to interfere with research leading to AGI. There are not that many researchers directly involved, and there are generally known widespread consequences which could result. Most likely, this could only delay the appearance of AGI and not prevent it.
What if all the history of the universe, life, and human history were just the unlikely precursor to the appearance of an AGI? What if we’re just part one of the many mechanisms for the generation of a “Boltzmann Brain?”
One of the books I read on the topic argued that a proto-Industrial Revolution was getting started with the iron and coal deposits in, IIRC, the Sung, but then the emperor/empire took them over as a state monopoly, which ended that.
There is the potential for governments to interfere with research leading to AGI. There are not that many researchers directly involved, and there are generally known widespread consequences which could result. Most likely, this could only delay the appearance of AGI and not prevent it.
What if all the history of the universe, life, and human history were just the unlikely precursor to the appearance of an AGI? What if we’re just part one of the many mechanisms for the generation of a “Boltzmann Brain?”