Never is a long time. I overall agree with your statement in this comment except for the word ‘never’. I would say, “An individual human currently can’t do such things...”
The key point here is that the technological barriers to x-risks may change in the future. If we do invent powerful nanotech, or substantially advanced genetic engineering techniques & tools, or vastly cheaper and more powerful weapons of some sort, then it may be the case that the barrier-to-entry for causing an x-risk is substantially lower. And thus, what is current impossible for any human may become possible for some or all humans.
Not saying this will happen, just saying that it could.
Of the three examples I gave, inventing nanotech is the most plausible for our galaxy-brained man, and I suppose meta-Einstein might be able to solve nanotech in his head. However, almost certainly in our timeline nanotech will be solved either by a team of humans or (much more likely at this point) AI. I expect that even ASI will need at least some time in the wetlab to experiment.
The other two examples I gave certainly could not be done by a single human without a brain implant.
I’m also thinking that is the not the meaningful of a debate (at least to me) since in 2023 I think we can reasonably predict that humans will not genetically engineer galaxy brains before the AI revolution resolves.
Never is a long time. I overall agree with your statement in this comment except for the word ‘never’. I would say, “An individual human currently can’t do such things...”
The key point here is that the technological barriers to x-risks may change in the future. If we do invent powerful nanotech, or substantially advanced genetic engineering techniques & tools, or vastly cheaper and more powerful weapons of some sort, then it may be the case that the barrier-to-entry for causing an x-risk is substantially lower. And thus, what is current impossible for any human may become possible for some or all humans.
Not saying this will happen, just saying that it could.
Of the three examples I gave, inventing nanotech is the most plausible for our galaxy-brained man, and I suppose meta-Einstein might be able to solve nanotech in his head. However, almost certainly in our timeline nanotech will be solved either by a team of humans or (much more likely at this point) AI. I expect that even ASI will need at least some time in the wetlab to experiment.
The other two examples I gave certainly could not be done by a single human without a brain implant.
I’m also thinking that is the not the meaningful of a debate (at least to me) since in 2023 I think we can reasonably predict that humans will not genetically engineer galaxy brains before the AI revolution resolves.