A lot of the theories as to why we're

imminently going to create an AGI are based

on a naive extrapolation of computational power.

It's almost, we'll do the induction

of more and more computational power.

And AI has already gotten good at vision

and beating us at chess and at video games.

So therefore, it's going to start thinking soon.

Another offshoot that I want to discuss

is this idea that humans are this resource consumers

on the earth.

And we're eating up all the earth's resources.

So having more humans on the earth is a bad idea,

whereas if you believe that knowledge comes through creativity,

then any child born tomorrow could be the next Einstein

or the next Feynman and discover something

that will change the world forever

with creativity that has non-linear outputs and effects.

But at the moment, we're very concerned about the pollution

or the loss of certain species.

And these are legitimate concerns for some people,

but it should never be at the expense of the long-term vision

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