“The best approaches for mitigating ‘the intelligence curse’ (or gradual disempowerment); my quick guesses at the best object-level interventions” by ryan_greenblatt
There have recently been various proposals for mitigations to "the intelligence curse" or "gradual disempowerment"—concerns that most humans would end up disempowered (or even dying) because their labor is no longer valuable. I'm currently skeptical that the typically highlighted prioritization and interventions are best and I have some alternative proposals for relatively targeted/differential interventions which I think would be more leveraged (as in, the payoff is higher relative to the difficulty of achieving them).
It's worth noting I doubt that these threats would result in huge casualty counts (due to e.g. starvation) or disempowerment of all humans (though substantial concentration of power among a smaller group of humans seems quite plausible).[1] I decided to put a bit of time into writing up my thoughts out of general cooperativeness (e.g., I would want someone in a symmetric position to do the same).
(This was a timeboxed effort of ~1.5 hr [...]
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May 31st, 2025
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