Tim took the stage before me and did a brilliant job giving us perspective on our inability to have a long-term perspective. He asked us to imagine the history of mankind as a 500 page book, read by an alien. We are presently on page 500. Christopher Columbus was page 498. The pace of change is staggering, and we should be humble in our inability to predict how exponential change will likely lead to the emergence of an Artificial Super Intelligence in our lifetimes (median expert prediction: by the year 2060, with AGI by 2040), and what that will mean to us mere humans. He reminded us that this Artificial Super Intelligence will be the last invention of mankind and the greatest challenge we’ll ever face.
“We live in exciting times. Our grandchildren will marvel at us: ‘You got pregnant? Like an animal?’”
“And then, we colonize Mars. I can count on one hand the equally important milestones for humanity: 1) emergence of life, 2) complex cells, 3) multi-cellular life, 4) life moving from ocean to land, and 5) life moving from one planet to two.”
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