Doesn’t David Sacks also have essentially the same worldview?
My sense is there are some e/accs who are basically transhumanists who don’t think AI risk is significant so they want to accelerate as fast as possible so we get transhumanism soon. There are hardly any of these people since there are hardly any transhumanists, but they have some outsized influence on twitter.
Then there are a way larger number of people who don’t think AI risk is significant so they want to accelerate so we can get the benefits of it sooner, but they’re not transhumanists—they just think that the benefits will be the same as those of other technologies but more so (better medicine, economic growth, a stronger US military etc). I would say that Tan/Andreessen/Sacks fall into this space but so does JD Vance and in fact probably most people in silicon valley.
Doesn’t David Sacks also have essentially the same worldview?
My sense is there are some e/accs who are basically transhumanists who don’t think AI risk is significant so they want to accelerate as fast as possible so we get transhumanism soon. There are hardly any of these people since there are hardly any transhumanists, but they have some outsized influence on twitter.
Then there are a way larger number of people who don’t think AI risk is significant so they want to accelerate so we can get the benefits of it sooner, but they’re not transhumanists—they just think that the benefits will be the same as those of other technologies but more so (better medicine, economic growth, a stronger US military etc). I would say that Tan/Andreessen/Sacks fall into this space but so does JD Vance and in fact probably most people in silicon valley.