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snowwrestler | on: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
> The TMV (Total Market Value) of solving AGI is infinity. And furthermore, if AGI is solved, the TMV of pretty much everything else drops to zero.

I feel like these extreme numbers are a pretty obvious clue that we’re talking about something that is completely imaginary. Like I could put “perpetual motion machine” into those sentences and the same logic holds.

romeros | parent | next
The intuition is pretty spot on though. We don't need to get to AGI. Just making progress along the way to AGI can do plenty of damage.

1. AI-driven medical procedures: Healthcare Cost = $0. 2. Access to world class education: Cost of education = $0 3. Transportation: Cheap Autonomous vehicles powered by Solar. 4. Scientific research: AI will accelerate scientific progress by coming up with novel hypotheses and then testing them. 5. AI Law Enforcement: Will piece together all the evidence in a split second and come up with a fair judgement. Will prevent crime before it happens by analyzing body language, emotions etc.

Basically, this will accelerate UBI.

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sowbug | parent
It's not crazy to believe that capitalizing* human-level intelligence would reap unimaginably large financial rewards.

*Capitalizing as in turning into an owned capital asset that throws off income.

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