Dwarkesh Patel

And I also agree that succession contains a wide variety of possible futures.

So curious to get more thoughts on that.

It's interesting to consider if we were just designing another generation of humans.

Yes.

He designs the wrong word, but we knew a future generation of humans was going to come up.

And forget about AI.

We just know in the long run, humanity will be more capable and maybe more numerous, maybe more intelligent.

How do we feel about that?

I do think there's potential worlds with future humans that we would be quite concerned about.

That's what you're saying?

Something like that.

I'm basically taking the example you're giving of like, okay, even if you consider them part of humanity, I don't think that necessarily means that we should feel super comfortable.

Yeah.

Like Nazis were humans, right?

If we thought like, oh, the future generation will be Nazis, I think we'd be quite concerned about just handing off humanity.

power to them.

So I agree that this is not super dissimilar to worrying about more capable future humans.

But I don't think that that addresses a lot of the concerns people might have about this level of power being attained this fast with entities we don't fully understand.

Yeah, I guess there's different varieties of change.

The Industrial Revolution was change.