[extropy-chat] Singularity Blues

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Edmund Schaefer <edmund.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whether
> we can "ride the wave" of advanced technology is only important if
> we're imagining that lots of people are going to gain access to it at
> once, which we can't safely assume.

Yet it seems the safest outcome, the one in which the greatest number
of people (used loosely: including uploads, new AIs, et al) are likely
to survive and prosper.  So, at least from the selfish perspective of
someone in the present who would like to create a future in which this
self can survive, that seems the option to steer towards.  (Of course
we can't safely assume it; if we could, no such steering would be
required.)

> All the power goes to the
> superintelligences that invent the stuff, and that's what we should
> prepare for.

Debatable, but in any case, setting things up so as to create as many
superintelligences as possible would seem likely to avoid the many
problems that have been pointed out with a single intelligence
dominating everything.