Max Tegmark
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first heard Aug 2018
last heard 3 Nov
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grow the GDP and produce this wealth of goods and services, it's very easy to create a world where everybody is better off than today, including the richest people can be better off as well, right?
It's not a zero sum game in technology.
Again, you can have two countries like Sweden and Denmark had all these ridiculous wars century after century.
And sometimes Sweden got a little better off because it got a little bit bigger, and then Denmark got a little bit better off because Sweden got a little bit smaller.
But then technology came along, and we both got just dramatically wealthier without taking it away from anyone else.
It was just a total win for everyone.
And AI can do that on steroids.
If you can build safe AGI, if you can build superintelligence...
basically all of the limitations that cause harm today can be completely eliminated, right?
It's a wonderful possibility.
And this is not sci-fi.
This is something which is clearly possible according to the laws of physics.
And we can talk about ways of making it safe also.
But unfortunately,
That'll only happen if we steer in that direction.
That's absolutely not the default outcome.
That's why income inequality keeps going up.
That's why the life expectancy in the US has been going down now, I think it's four years in a row.
I just read a heartbreaking study from CDC about how something like one third of all teenage girls in the US have been thinking about suicide.
Those are steps in totally the wrong direction.
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