Which scientific, technological, or social achievements are we unlikely to ever complete before artificial general intelligence arrives?

Examples to seed the discussion: fully mapped human brain at synapse-level, reliable molecular nanofabrication, global economic equality, true interstellar travel, or a 100% cure for aging.

  • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I feel like the modern civilization (or at least world order) is likely to collapse before we reach AGI. Either due to this:

    relevant xkcd

    Or due to the impending climate disaster.

    Or due to a certain orange person with alleged dementia nuking China.

    I don’t think humans will go extinct (not for a while, anyways), but scientific progress will be on pause for a while there.