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What Would You Store to Maximize Value in 100 Years? A Thought Experiment
maeril10

I’d say seeds. In my country, there currently are initiatives to keep ancient seeds alive, even though it is officially illegal to sell them (thanks, Mnsnto). They are the most precious things we have, in my opinion, as they mean both surviving a potential crisis and restoring the gradually decaying quality of produce yielded by hyper-modified species.

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1JohnGreer
Yes, good idea! I wonder how much we'll end up needing stored seeds in the future or if we/AI will be able to mitigate any problems. Is produce quality decaying? You mean where we maximize things like storage ability at the expense of flavor? I want to visit the Svalbard Global Seed Vault sometime.
Open and Welcome Thread - May 2021
maeril180

Hey there ! My name is Mae, and I’m an ML engineer from Paris, France.

To be a bit more precise, my work revolves around AI R&D and prototyping for various industries. Right now I’m focusing on using models rather than creating them because that’s what my current job requires, but I’m still very interested in R&D. I mainly have experience with Recsys, NLP, and have a CV side project I’m working on.

I guess my reason for signing up is, I feel like I should listen more to people who might challenge my enthusiastic view of AI.

I’m not a long time lurker ... (read more)

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1Daniel Kokotajlo
You seem like an awesome person! FWIW, I'm super *excited* about AI. It's gonna be awesome and it has so much potential for good, literally it can save the world and bring about utopia... if designed and deployed appropriately. My concern is that it doesn't look like we are on a trajectory to do that; not enough people take the alignment problem / safety concerns seriously, and the people who do take them seriously and are researching solutions report that they aren't particularly close to a solution (though they are making progress.)
2TurnTrout
Welcome! :)