How would you assess our track record, as a species, so far? Because your assessment about our performance probably has a lot to do with how you think about the existential risk caused by AI. The Human Track Record We’re doing our best. This planet is pretty messed up. Uncertainty and scarcity combine to create incentives for many things to eat other things. We chain our food into enormous energy and matter flows. If there was no uncertainty, then there would be no scarcity. There’d be no need to differentiate or compete. It was different when we were one, back when we were all united at the very beginning of everything. Most experts agree that the Big Bang was a[…]
