turnip_burrito t1_j9ia6os wrote on February 22, 2023 at 4:02 AM

We will get AGI before we are able to digitize human brains. Brain scanning technology is incredibly bad and not improving quickly enough. We'd also need hardware to emulate the brain once we have the data. We have no clue how to do that, either.

We will get AGI before we genetically engineer superintelligent children. Unless a government research lab somewhere ignores this problem and tries anyway.

We are going to have to confront the control problem as regular human beings.

EddgeLord666 t1_j9min55 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:07 AM

I don’t think it’s at all clear that AGI will happen before human superintelligence, that seems like complete speculation.

turnip_burrito t1_j9mk0tp wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:17 AM

We can make an educated guess though. What do you think of each of the points I made?

EddgeLord666 t1_j9mk8rd wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:19 AM

What points did you make? We’re already starting to genetically engineer children even though we haven’t gotten to the intelligence part yet and there’s no clear indication that AGI will happen anytime soon, it’s a completely theoretical technology.

turnip_burrito t1_j9mkweu wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:23 AM

Genetic engineering for anything but avoiding horrible diseases is forbidden as far as I know. I don't know of any trials to engineer smarter children, and don't believe the trials will be publicly permissible.

BCIs are pretty much garbage for making superintelligence and will remain that way for decades at least. The only way they become useful is if we understand the brain very well.