I don’t understand what state do you think other technologies are in from the moment Agent 3 appeared until everything got out of control? What about Agent-3 help with WBE? Or increasing the intelligence of adults to solve the alignment?
Why in the worlds where we already have powerful enough agents that haven’t yet gotten out of control, we see them working on self-improvement, but don’t see game-changing progress in other areas?
cryonics is expensive, unpopular and unavailable in most countries of the world. This is also a situation where young and rich people in first world countries buy themselves a reduction probability of their own death, at the expense of a guaranteed deprivation of the chances of life of the poor and old people.