Intelligence and energy will be practically free within about 20 years, plus or minus 10 maybe, and trying to position yourself to come ahead of that is a very strange bet to even try to formulate.
“How do we figure out goals for ourselves? How are goals defined? They tend to be defined for a given human by their own personal history, their cultural environment, the history of our civilization. Goals are something that are uniquely human. It's something that almost doesn't make any sense.”
It’s incredibly peculiar to be alive around these times, when like 98% of humans before us have died. Makes me think it’s not just luck. Survival rate is abysmal, it’s legitimately 0% but plus the .0000000000001% in cryonic storage. The proportion between dead & alive grows larger with literally each day, I think it’s 14:1 now. Somehow we’ve stumbled to the finish line, if you’re about my age I think this is a safe prediction. Humans always try to work smarter then harder, and we’ve finally harnessed what is essentially math (technology) to do *everything* else for us. The day the survival rate of aging increases by even .000000001%, via CRISPR or any gene editing type vaccination, will be a monumental day for the entire human race.
“Aging kills about 100,000 people per day. If there were a disease doing that, we would say ‘ok covid is nothing. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got’.” -Anders Sandberg
I’m having trouble thinking about what will remain career wise in a post technological society. Everything I can imagine that requires humans will fade in time, from therapy/counseling, any type of work, any type of academic research, experimental physics, etc.
New types of jobs, unlike anything we have today are likely. For now I’m just indexing away + becoming multimodal.
It truly seems the only way we go is outward, into the galaxy, to explore? Planet mapping technology is accelerating far faster then we can travel. By the time that speed of travel to go far enough is created/engineered practically/put into use, we’ll have exact pinpoints on where to go & what lies in wait.
I can really only pray that AI ends up aligned correctly. Maybe that’s the move? It honestly feels @ times that there’s more people working on alignment then actual AI lol. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true either, literally biggest existential risk in our lifetime (lifetime is a wierd metric though, maybe saying 0-100 years span is more understandable).
