Roman Yampolskiy

But that's not how I think about it, you know?

I think about it like there has to be a moment where it doesn't exist.

Why wouldn't I assume that moment is now?

And when whenever like when Elon thinks that, you know, I talked to him about it.

He's like the chances of us not being in the simulation are in the billions.

The chances of us not being in the real world are like billions to one.

Yeah.

And so if it's impossible to contain superintelligence and if there is a world that we can imagine where a simulation exists that's indistinguishable from reality, we're probably living in it.

Well, it's impossible, right?

Well, here's the question about all that other stuff, like suffering and dying.

Do those factors exist in order to motivate us to improve the conditions of the world that we're living in?

Like if we did not have evil, would we be motivated to be good?

Do you think that these factors exist?

I've talked about this before, but the way I think about the human race is if I was studying the human race from afar, if I was some person from another planet with no understanding of any of the entities on Earth, I would look at this one apex creature and

And I would say, what is this thing doing?

Well, it makes better things.

That's all it does.

It just continually makes better things.

That's its number one goal.

It's different than any other creature on the planet.