Richard Ngo, a top researcher at open AI, recently said something rather interesting:
"*The closer we get to the singularity the lower my risk tolerance gets. I’d already ruled out skydiving and paragliding. Last year I started wearing a helmet consistently while cycling. I think 2024 might be the year I give up skiing. It’s not that I think the risks are that high, objectively speaking. But wouldn’t it be unbearably embarrassing to have your name go down in history as one of the people who died totally avoidable deaths only a few years before immortality became possible?*" Risk tolerance <https://twitter.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1754246939527491887> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> sr1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv35V6ex1UV7RQeMVnChp0zmv%2BXx8jPTz26NzhXw14bEmQ%40mail.gmail.com.
