It’s easy for ruling AGIs to have many small superintelligent drone police per human that can continually observe and restrain any physical action, and insert controls in all computer equipment/robots. That is plenty to let the humans go about their lives (in style and with tremendous wealth/tech) while being prevented from creating vacuum collapse or something else that might let them damage the vastly more powerful AGI civilization.
The material cost of this is a tiny portion of Solar System resources, as is sustaining legacy humans. On the other hand, arguments like cooperation with aliens, simulation concerns, and similar matter on the scale of the whole civilization, which has many OOMs more resources.
Thanks for the concrete example in the first paragraph, upvote.
I don’t know that it would successfully contain humans who were within it for 10^36 years. That seems like enough time for some Ramanujan-like figure to crack the basics of how to code an AGI in his head and share it, and potentially figure out a hidden place or substrate on which to do computation that the drones aren’t successfully tracking. (It’s also enough time for super-babies or discovering other interesting cheat codes in reality.)
10^36 is my cached number from the last time I asked how long life could sustain in this universe,. Perhaps you think it would only keep us alive as long as our sun exists, which is 5*10^9 years. On that side of things, it seems to me essentially the same as extinction in terms of value-lost.
I don’t follow the relevance of the second paragraph, perhaps you’re just listing those as outstanding risks from sustaining a whole civilization.
It’s easy for ruling AGIs to have many small superintelligent drone police per human that can continually observe and restrain any physical action, and insert controls in all computer equipment/robots. That is plenty to let the humans go about their lives (in style and with tremendous wealth/tech) while being prevented from creating vacuum collapse or something else that might let them damage the vastly more powerful AGI civilization.
The material cost of this is a tiny portion of Solar System resources, as is sustaining legacy humans. On the other hand, arguments like cooperation with aliens, simulation concerns, and similar matter on the scale of the whole civilization, which has many OOMs more resources.
Thanks for the concrete example in the first paragraph, upvote.
I don’t know that it would successfully contain humans who were within it for 10^36 years. That seems like enough time for some Ramanujan-like figure to crack the basics of how to code an AGI in his head and share it, and potentially figure out a hidden place or substrate on which to do computation that the drones aren’t successfully tracking. (It’s also enough time for super-babies or discovering other interesting cheat codes in reality.)
10^36 is my cached number from the last time I asked how long life could sustain in this universe,. Perhaps you think it would only keep us alive as long as our sun exists, which is 5*10^9 years. On that side of things, it seems to me essentially the same as extinction in terms of value-lost.
I don’t follow the relevance of the second paragraph, perhaps you’re just listing those as outstanding risks from sustaining a whole civilization.