Stuart Russell
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first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
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Humans do something and then we're all dead.
So the only things we can imagine are the things we know how to do that might bring about our own extinction, like creating some carefully engineered pathogen that infects everybody and then kills us.
Or starting a nuclear war, presumably as something that's much more intelligent than us, would have much greater control over physics than we do.
We already do amazing things, right?
I mean, it's amazing that I can take a little rectangular thing out of my pocket and talk to someone on the other side of the world or even someone in space.
It's just astonishing.
And we can take it for granted.
But imagine super intelligent beings and their ability to control physics.
Perhaps they will find a way to just divert the sun's energy, sort of go around the Earth's orbit.
So literally the Earth turns into a snowball in a few days.
They might, yeah.
So it's difficult to anticipate all the ways that we might go extinct at the hands of entities much more intelligent than ourselves.
Anyway, coming back to the question of, well, if everything goes right, if we create AGI, we figure out how to make it safe,
we achieve all these economic miracles, then you face a problem.
And this is not a new problem, right?
So John Maynard Keynes, who was a famous economist in the early part of the 20th century, wrote a paper in 1930.
So this is in the depths of the Depression.
It's called On the Economic Problems of Our Grandchildren.
He predicts that at some point, science will
will deliver sufficient wealth that no one will have to work ever again.
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