One of the weirdest things to me about the tech scene for AI is you regularly hear variants on "Super-human intelligence is coming next year and will permanently alter life as we know it. Prepare your business and finances accordingly." Setting aside what you think about the first half, how does the second half make any sense? Like... what would you do differently, other than move to the woods?
@ZachWeinersmith ...and it particularly doesn't make sense from the point of view of the AI companies themselves.
"This time next year you will own a billion superhuman slaves" and you are still arguing about funding deals and compliance and government contracts? You should be building antarctic supervillain lairs or taking repentant refuge in a mountaintop monastery or something!
@ZachWeinersmith (The exception here is obviously Larry Ellison who already does have a classic volcano + megayacht supervillain lair. Credit to Larry, he has always known exactly what he is.)