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Could you elaborate on your last paragraph? Presuming a state overrides its economic incentives (ie establishes a robust post-AGI welfare system), I'd like to see how you think the selection pressures would take hold.
For what it's worth, I don't think "utopian communism" and/or a world without human agency are good. I concur with Rudolf entirely here -- those outcomes miss agency what has so far been an core part of the human experience. I want dynamism to exist, though I'm still working on if/how I think we could achieve that. I'll save that for a future post.
I appreciate this concern, but I disagree. An incognito google search of "intelligence curse" didn't yield anything using this phrase on the front page except for this LessWrong post. Adding quotes around it or searching for the full phrase ("the intelligence curse") showed this post as the first result.
A quick twitter search in recent shows the phrase "the intelligence curse" before this post:
I agree. To add an example: the US government's 2021 expanded child tax credit lifted 3.7 million children out of poverty, a near 50% reduction. Moreover, according to the NBER's initial assessment: "First, payments strongly reduced food insufficiency: the initial payments led to a 7.5 percentage point (25 percent) decline in food insufficiency among low-income households with children. Second, the effects on food insufficiency are concentrated among families with 2019 pre-tax incomes below $35,000".
Despite this, Congress failed to renew the program....
My claim is that the incentives AGI creates are quite similar to the resource curse, not that it would literally behave like a resource. But:
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