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0 points_cjse1y ago0 comments

Agreed with you that (a) AGI is a real, transformative, and possibly calamitous event, and (b) with the amount of money getting pumped into it we will almost certainly get there.

However, I have a personal hobby horse here, which is reminding people that if we shut the flow of investor money off using the right economic policies [1], we can almost certainly just ... stop the research outright, before it becomes an issue.

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Affric1y ago

True but my view on that is that governments don't want anyone else to be the first with AI AGI... and therefore they will strive to be the first. Kinda like how a big motivation for the atomic bomb was the threat of Germany developing the bomb.

And the amount of capital means that these companies could pay a lot more for labour than they are paying now for the sorts of labour we would need to deprive them of. It's an interesting idea though.

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