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Most of human problems could be solved by humans or slightly above human AIs

Every task (mainly engineering problems) that are currently solved by humans could be optimized to a staggering degree by a strong AI, think microprocessors.

The long list of coordination problems that exist in human communities.

The fact that humans are capable of solving some problems now (e.g. food production), is hardly sufficient. The problem is currently solved with immense human costs.

But the main problem is that even though humans are capable of solving some problems, they are inherently selfish, so they will only solve problems for themselves. For this reason there are billions of people on this... (read more)

I, too, have some objections, including issues with the underlying model on which this post is written.

First off, impostor syndrome, self-esteem. It's mostly an endocrine "problem", it's a body's way of adapting status negociation to the social environment. It's almost entirely determined by testosterone levels in males (and probably in females as well). Of course, winning social competitions results in a boost in T. But the conscious level evaluation of where you you rank among others, in what percentile you are at something is completely different than the underlying, system-1 self-evaluation. Of course, gathering evince that you are good at something will update your system-1 evaluation automatically (e.g. having produced something... (read 1104 more words →)