!Life after AGI --- delyan's memex 18 August 2024 @ 05:15 UTC --- written on X1 Nano w/ Slackware almost asleep in bed --- What would life after AGI look like? Perhaps it is not just AGI. Perhaps it is a plethora of things that will happen all at once: telescoping and accelerating to a convergence point where it all, over time, shapes life to look much different than what we have and know today. This may be called singularity by some, second coming by others, apocalypse maybe, or paradise even. But it might be subtle and not so noticeable - boiling frog. Imagine... Self driving cars allow for pleasant commute and cities begin to look differently - lower density, longer commute but affordable housing. Internet is fast and everywhere with Starlink et al making low latency connectivity a true utility. And absurdly cheap desalination make the west coast livable - there are community gardens growing cheap organic vegetables. Abandoned office buildings are converted to affordable housing and health care starts with a consultation with your own phone. Where is AGI in all of this? Hopefully embedded in it all - solving all these problems - answering questions such as - how to make office buildings into living spaces, how to grow community gardens and feed the residents, how to heal humans without the need for expensive health care plans etc. --- But I do worry about people, including myself, losing their jobs, and with that their life's purpose, drive, and aspirations. I also worry about increased reliance on intelligent system to the point where we, in aggregate, outsource our thinking to these computers and forget how to apply critical thought, how to perform our own research, or to question facts as these are presented to us. Not having a job is scary and I do not know what that would look like or when it may arrive. But I think about what I personally would do if I had the time to refocus my life. Here are the things I am passionate about & would sink my time into (IFF food, shelter & health care were somehow solved for us all): - mathematics - algebra, geometry, and calculus - farming - efficient irrigation, tomatoes, goats - non profit - Uganda - housing, water, sanitation - startup - high revenue per employee, small org - OSS - Linux Kernel and/or OpenBSD contributions - teaching - college or elementary math - resume PhD track - local or fed government - space force, cyber* - work on the intersection of AGI X gov X finance - high-rise elevator technician/mechanic/repairman - work with humans in health care - become a nurse - build programs, gardens, shelters for unhoused - study law & influence policy --- What do you think? delyan@sdf.org