Risk tolerance and the Singularity

[John Clark]

Richard Ngo, a top researcher at open AI, recently said something rather interesting: 

"The closer we get to the singularity the lower my risk tolerance gets. I’d already ruled out skydiving and paragliding. Last year I started wearing a helmet consistently while cycling. I think 2024 might be the year I give up skiing. It’s not that I think the risks are that high, objectively speaking. But wouldn’t it be unbearably embarrassing to have your name go down in history as one of the people who died totally avoidable deaths only a few years before immortality became possible?"

Risk tolerance

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[Terren Suydam]

Immortality is overrated.

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For what its worth Kurzweil over a year ago said, with preciseness, that he felt 2030 was the time by when medical nanobots would be doing repair in our bloodstreams. 

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