I’m in favour of slowing the intelligence explosion (and in particular of “Pause at human-level”.)
Shouldn’t making that happen be a top priority, then? We as a civilization need to get a lot of groundwork in place to make a human-level pause happen: international agreement, defined red lines, enforcement mechanisms (e.g. GPU tracking), etc. Given how neglected these issues are and the catastrophic consequences of building ASI too quickly, it seems that laying the groundwork for a pause is a higher priority than, or at least on par with, the top causes on this post’s “neglected cause areas” list.
Shouldn’t making that happen be a top priority, then? We as a civilization need to get a lot of groundwork in place to make a human-level pause happen: international agreement, defined red lines, enforcement mechanisms (e.g. GPU tracking), etc. Given how neglected these issues are and the catastrophic consequences of building ASI too quickly, it seems that laying the groundwork for a pause is a higher priority than, or at least on par with, the top causes on this post’s “neglected cause areas” list.