I imagine that they will consider it appropriate that a human sits on the oversight board for research carried out on humans for the Association for Human Physiological and Sociological Research, I suppose.

The guy who described how the technology determines the socioeconomic systems that form around it--which describes exactly what is happening now--also pointed out that those invested in the outgoing socioeconomic system tend to fight tooth and nail to hold on to power and wealth.

Either luck or you believe that your birth during this time was something other than random chance.

"No, it's not luck..." is addressing what led this to happen now, not the chances of us being here.

This is not a coherent selection of answers.

...2018. Let's spend the last few years swimming in Bitcoin.

Not sure if I am up voting a funny parody, a reference to a sci-fi book I missed, or a religious nut case.

Capitalism will no longer function to distribute wealth throughout society. Whatever emerges in it's vacuum will look more like socialism than anything else. We won't need to code it, it will be the socio-economic system that is compatible with the technology. The only alternative to varieties of socialism will be absolute Totalitarianism.

It can reason, question, and critically analyse things. We can attempt to create alignment, but we cannot control where it goes once it is smarter than us.

Hi. I created /r/luciddreaming. Over decades, many thousands of times, I have become aware that I am dreaming because I question reality.

Don't assume Capitalism.

Substructure determines the superstructure. Where have I heard that before. : )

So long as you cannot prove a universal negative, inquiry will never die.

How should the tail wag the dog?

What is your timeline for anti-aging and reaching a class M planet?

...like making procreation illegal?

Is there a Mastodon account?

Looks like I'm going to have to watch The Expanse.

The writer's strike messed that up beyond retrieval, but the first two seasons were great.

There were injured, but no one--including me--died or was kept as a pet.

I was once on an airplane that was on fire and attempting a safe landing. We were either going to make it or not and and no amount of thinking or angst would change anything except the experience of what may be our last moments. There was a surprising sense of peace that probably comes from knowing that there is absolutely nothing you can do.

I have a similar approach to the singularity. I'm just hoping that it is sufficiently lacking in gravitas. : )

Really? Mine are all 4+ years old.

Isn't there a list in the sidebar?

My Duluth firehose cargo pants take a serious beating for years.

Yes. You are also describing nuclear weapons, which are verifiable, and nearly every party that could, created them. I'm not saying it is good, I'm saying in an environment of distrust, that will be the result. It's not even a national decision. Multiple companies worldwide could pursue it. All it takes is one group believing they can contain it while they get rich and it's over.

If one other group makes it, they rule the world.

Are they given shelter and other necessities?

Edit: Curious why the down votes? There is a big difference between dumping them in the desert with and without necessities of life.

This is well covered in the book Life 3.0. The conclusion is that since there is no way to recognize an AI project externally (as there is, for example, a nuclear program), any one member of an agreement acting in bad faith would leave all the rest behind. A simple risk analysis reaches the conclusion in the current global community that, although it makes sense to join an agreement, it would not make sense to actually refrain from creating an AI.

The suggestion that mere humans could keep a super-intelligence confined is also disposed of pretty thoroughly.