Can't help but think about the obvious: maybe we should just skip all the drudgery of the natural convulsive progress and ruthless competition, push "accelerate" and get to the mature AGI civilization regime as soon as possible?
And there we should just ask our new creative oracle machines the obvious: "devise an understandable minimally invasive method of uplifting our own cognition and extending our biological lifespan". Surely at least some gene/cell/whatever therapy which does what we need is theoretically possible - the human beings aren't special enough for this not to be the case.
At least that's the zeitgeist I perceive among others who understand the significance of the unfolding progress.
And there we should just ask our new creative oracle machines the obvious: "devise an understandable minimally invasive method of uplifting our own cognition and extending our biological lifespan". Surely at least some gene/cell/whatever therapy which does what we need is theoretically possible - the human beings aren't special enough for this not to be the case.
At least that's the zeitgeist I perceive among others who understand the significance of the unfolding progress.