reminder "The most important thing you can do over the next few years is merely stay alive" "If AGI is possible then ASI is very likely possible, and if ASI is possible then vastly extending human lifespans via superintelligence enhanced biological engineering is likely possible. So if you believe AGI is possible and it is possible to align AGI, then it is imperative to stay alive until it is achieved. By doing so you give yourself the opportunity to live potentially thousands or even millions of years after as a superintelligence, but with full memories of your existing life and continuity of consciousness." "No matter if you’re a billionaire or the most poor, destitute individual living in squalor, AGI will be the great equalizer. Human capabilities and preexisting wealth are meaningless in a post-scarcity, post-human-hierarchy world. As long as you have your 100 billion brain cells, you are given a pass to transcendence just as any other consciousness."