Great interview, thanks for some really thought-provoking ideas. For the brain in the box section, it seemed like you were saying that we’d expect future worlds to have fairly uniform distributions of capabilities of AI systems, and so we’d learn from other similar cases. How uniform do you think the spread of capabilities of AI systems is now, and how wide do you think the gaps have to be in the future for the ‘brain in a box’ scenario to be possible?
Great interview, thanks for some really thought-provoking ideas. For the brain in the box section, it seemed like you were saying that we’d expect future worlds to have fairly uniform distributions of capabilities of AI systems, and so we’d learn from other similar cases. How uniform do you think the spread of capabilities of AI systems is now, and how wide do you think the gaps have to be in the future for the ‘brain in a box’ scenario to be possible?