If we one day succeed in building human-level AGI, this may trigger an intelligence explosion, leaving us far behind.

Compared to cosmic timescales of billions of years, an intelligence explosion is a sudden event where technology rapidly plateaus at a level limited only by the laws of physics.

Whereas a rapid intelligence explosion is likely to lead to a single world power, a slow one dragging on for years or decades may be more likely to lead to a multipolar scenario with a balance of power between a large number of rather independent entities.

The autonomy principle underlies many of the freedoms and rights spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 in an attempt to learn lessons from two world wars. This includes freedom of thought, speech and movement, freedom from slavery and torture, the right to life, liberty, security and

The current race toward AGI can end in a fascinatingly broad range of aftermath scenarios for upcoming millennia.

Nash equilibrium: a situation where any party would be worse off if they altered their strategy.

About 400,000 years later, the electromagnetic force grouped these nuclei with electrons to make the first atoms.

Such memory systems are called auto-associative, since they recall by association rather than by address.

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