Conditional on an aligned superintelligence appearing in a short time, there could be interventions that prevent or delay deaths until it appears and probably save these lives and have a lot of value (though it’s hard to come up with concrete examples. Speculating without thinking about the actual costs, providing HIV therapy that’s possibly not cost-effective if you to do it for a lifetime but is cost-effective if you do it for a year or maybe freezing people when they die or providing mosquito nets that stop working in a year but are a lot cheaper sound kind of like it)
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Conditional on an aligned superintelligence appearing in a short time, there could be interventions that prevent or delay deaths until it appears and probably save these lives and have a lot of value (though it’s hard to come up with concrete examples. Speculating without thinking about the actual costs, providing HIV therapy that’s possibly not cost-effective if you to do it for a lifetime but is cost-effective if you do it for a year or maybe freezing people when they die or providing mosquito nets that stop working in a year but are a lot cheaper sound kind of like it)