Sneerers likely already know this, but compiling all this for future reference.
(Shoutout to Emile Torres for providing most of this)
From his Bankless podcast interview:
”have basic moral questions about whether it’s ethical for humans to have human children, if having transhuman children is an option instead. Like, these humans running around? Are they, like, the current humans who wanted eternal youth but, like, not the brain upgrades? Because I do see the case for letting an existing person choose, “No, I just want eternal youth and no brain upgrades, thank you.” But then if you’re deliberately having the equivalent of a very crippled child when you could just as easily have a not crippled child……Like, should humans in their present form be around together? Are we, like, kind of too sad in some ways? … I’d say that the happy future looks like beings of light having lots of fun in a nicely connected computing fabric powered by the Sun, if we haven’t taken the sun apart yet. Maybe there’s enough real sentiment in people that you just, like, clear all the humans off the Earth and leave the entire place as a park. … Yeah, like … That was always the [thing] to be fought for. That was always the point, from the perspective of everyone who’s been in this for a long time.”
Clip from his interview with Stephen Wolfram where he says he’s not concerned with being replaced, only that he’s concerned that the thing replacing him won’t be ‘better’.
Eliezer tweet about the ‘worthy successor’ and another one
And saving the best for last, from his podcast interview with Daniel Faggella:
“If sacrificing all of humanity were the only way, and a reliable way, to get … godlike things out there — superintelligences who still care about each other, who are still aware of the world and having fun — I would ultimately make that trade-off.”
Feel free to add anything I’ve missed