The rich will control the resources of development, as they do currently. Why will the technology then be shared with all of society when they will all see the consequences very clearly. Again you fail to answer. How do you prevent runaway population growth? How do you prevent food shortages? Ohh the AGI will solve all that for you too? You live in a fa tasy land. But go ahead let your anger convince you that its a problem free future where we all live to a million and play paddy cake in a field of roses. Get a grip.

Who knows, I hope I will be able to. No one is saying we should not try to cure dementia, no one is saying we should not decrease pain. But as typical of your ideological insanity you ignored all the problems, failed to offer even a sinvle solution. What do we do about the run away population growth? The famine? War? Oh great you cured a few individual sufferings and wrought suffering on a mass scale to all of human civilization. Those things you tall about as if they are guarantees, they will not be extended to everyone.

Assuming the singularity is a net positive to humanity is a very narcissitic point of view.

You dont cure suffering, you just give it to someone else. If you can not critical think to the extent to understand that the world has a population cap and every old person who lives longer takes resources from someone else, go fuck yourself. Seriously. I do not support a distopian future of forced sterilization or rationing so some greedy pathetic billionare can live for 10000 years.

You still are a crazy person. Resources are limited people can not continue to have kids and live forever. Embrace the human experience, enjoy perception. Then face death like a man and not a coward. Instead of wasting your life, live it.

You will get old. You may get cancer. Death is part of the human experience. Just like the boomers you all rally against, extending life span to immortality is to steal the miracle of experience from future generations.

Should we be optimistic? How do we know for sure AGI is going to be a net positive at all?

1970s? Much further back than that

Thats a future I will be glad i dont see. I do not think that equals a better humanity at all. Choice is what makes lofe beautiful. If the point is just peace at the cost of everything then mind as well just end the species

All approaches would be arbitrary thats the point

Yeah and effectively modify genes? You can order iron too its not economocal for the average person to create steel and manufacture products. CRISPR is the very intro to actually applying this at any scale

Deciding arbitrarily what "traits" some random authority deams acceptable. Literal dystopian.

Authoritarian to an absolutely terrifying degree

Yep. Far more concerned about the future inequality to come from crispr thsn the benefits..

Big pharma- put massive effort to cure minor genetic defects from low to middle income famalies. OR

-super engineer billionares children for huge cost and take government funding to steralize unwanted populations.

I think option 2 is much more likely unfortunately.

If you say so

You want to rewrite human nature? Maybe we can just remove all the annoying abilities of the working class so they are mindless thoughtless puppets who can endlessly slave away for the elite. Or what if those very attributes are what allow humans to innovate and live rich fullfilling lives. The moment conflict is gone is the moment all the novelty of life ceases to exist.

Wrong. Someone with bad intentions will very likely be the first large scale application of this type of tech

Before anything positive is done with it would be my guess. Or how about designer babies as if being born to a billionare didnt already have enough advantages lets make sure they are all 6'6" olympic cailaber athletes with genius level IQ