alt Hacker NewsThe women of the world are creating millions of new intelligence beings every day. I'm really not sure what having one made of metal is going to get us.
Right now the AGI tech bros seem to me to be subscribed to some new weird religion. They take it on faith that some super intelligence is going to solve the world problems. We already have some really high IQ people today, and I don't see them doing much better than anybody else at solving the world's problems.
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Exactly.. even if we had an AGI superintelligence, and it came up with a solution to global warming, we'd still have right-wingnuts that stands in the way of any kind of progress. And the story is practically the same for every other problem it could solve - people are still the problem.
I think it's important to not let valid criticisms of implausibly short AGI timelines cloud our judgments of AGI's potential impact. Compared to babies born today, AGI that's actually AGI may have many advantages:
- Faster reading and writing speed
- Ability to make copies of the most productive workers
- No old age
- No need to sleep
- No need to worry about severance and welfare and human rights and breaks and worker safety
- Can be scaled up and scaled down and redeployed much more quickly
- Potentially lower cost, especially with adaptive compute
- Potentially high processing speed
Even if AGI has downsides compared to human labor, it might also have advantages that lead to widespread deployment.
Like, if I had an employee with low IQ, but this employee could work 24 hours around the clock learning and practicing, and they could work for 200 years straight without aging, and they could make parallel copies of themselves, surely there would have to be some tasks at which they're going to outperform humans, right?