If AI goes well I think the world could be extremely good. The bottom 10% living far better than the top 10% do now. This is the promise that gets people working so hard to build something so dangerous.
Insofar as that last sentence is true, I think it’d be true mostly because it provides cover (to oneself and others) for other motivations like working on cool problems with smart people at high profile companies and getting large compensation.
Insofar as that last sentence is true, I think it’d be true mostly because it provides cover (to oneself and others) for other motivations like working on cool problems with smart people at high profile companies and getting large compensation.