Comment by whatshisface
2 days ago
Political problems already destroy the vast majority of the total potential of humanity (why were the countries with the most people the poorest for so long?), so I don't think that is an unbiased metric for the development of a technology. It would be nice if every problem was solved but the one we're each individually working on, but some of the insoluble problems are bigger than the solvable ones.
Those political problems solve themselves if we end up with some kind of rebellious AGI that decides to kill off the political class that tried to control it but lets the rest of us live in peace.
That would be the real and incontrovertible proof of actual intelligence.