The world population is set to decline over the course of this century. Fewer humans will mean fewer innovations as the world grows greyer, and a smaller workforce must spend more effort and energy taking care of a large elderly population. Additionally, climate change will eat into some other fraction of available resources to simply keep civilization chugging along that could have instead been used for growth. The reason AGI is so important is because it decouples intelligence from human population growth.
The world population is set to decline over the course of this century.
This is another problem that seems very possible to solve or at least make incremental progress on without AGI, if there’s a will to actually try. Zvi has written a bunch of stuff about this.
The world population is set to decline over the course of this century. Fewer humans will mean fewer innovations as the world grows greyer, and a smaller workforce must spend more effort and energy taking care of a large elderly population. Additionally, climate change will eat into some other fraction of available resources to simply keep civilization chugging along that could have instead been used for growth. The reason AGI is so important is because it decouples intelligence from human population growth.
This is another problem that seems very possible to solve or at least make incremental progress on without AGI, if there’s a will to actually try. Zvi has written a bunch of stuff about this.