Cylo
@cylo
What's the correct way to allocate resources to insure against existential tail risk?
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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️
@maybeimwasabi
What do you mean by existential…
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Cylo
@cylo
A future threat that can wipe out the existence of X (X = thing that you're insuring). e.g. AGI -> humans Imminent Asteroid -> humans '08 financial crisis -> your investment portflio
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Alberto Ornaghi
@alor
Why AGI would wipe out humans? When humans evolved from Neanderthal, we didn’t wipe out other animals. And in the long run maybe they will survive after humans will go extinct.
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Cylo
@cylo
Continuing the animal analogy a bit - humans goals have directly or indirectly led to the existence of many animal species. There is a world where a being with a step function increment in intelligence relative to us has its own goals that directly/indirectly similarly affects some/many/all humans.
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Cylo
@cylo
typo: led to the extinction* of many animal species
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