[ExI] A sad day for the US Weather Bureau

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 05/10/2026 03:23, spike wrote:
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> If AI hits the limits of human knowledge, then a plausible outcome is John’s unimaginable wealth scenario, where humanity reaches a new equilibrium but everyone has a way better life than before.
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> If AI keeps moving and figures out how to recursively self-improve, then the plausible outcomes are that it solves all our problems or that it kills everybody.


Unimaginable wealth (for whom?) without solving all our problems (or at least the most pressing ones) seems to be a recipe for disaster to me.

One of the worst problems we have is inequality. Not just of wealth, but of power. The current trajectory looks like making inequality of both much worse. That needs to be solved before the 'everyone has a way better life than before' part can become true. It's not a matter of how much wealth or power we can create, it's a matter of making sure it's not extremely unequally distributed.
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Ben