Roman Yampolskiy

We're really close.

Yeah, I know, but I talk to a lot of people that are on the forefront of a lot of this research, and there's a lot of breakthroughs that are happening right now that are pretty spectacular, that if you scale, you know, assuming that superintelligence doesn't wipe us out in the next 50 years, which is really charitable, you know, that's a very...

That's a rose-colored glasses perspective, right?

50 years.

Because a lot of people like yourself think it's a year away or two years away from being far more intelligent.

Yes, same problem.

I mean...

Well, we don't know that it doesn't scale to humans.

We do know that we share a lot of characteristics, biological characteristics of these mammals, and it makes sense that it would scale to human beings.

But the thing is, it hasn't been done yet.

Right.

So if it's the game that we're playing, if we're in the simulation, if we're playing Half-Life or whatever it is, and we're at this point of the game, we're like, oh, you know, how old are you, Roman?

Well, I'm almost 58.

And so this is at the point of the game where you start worrying.

You know, like, oh, I'm almost running out of game.

You know, oh, but if I can get this magic power-up, this magic power-up will give me another 100 years.

Oh, boy.

Let me find it.

Let me chase it down.

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