I think that brings up a good point, but the main reason not to work on trust tech is actually cultural (Ayn Rand type stuff), not out of self-interest. There’s actually tons of social status and org reputation to be gained from building technology that fixes a lot of problems, and it makes the world safer for the self-interested people building it.
It might not code as something their society values (e.g. cash return on investment) but the net upside is way bigger than the net downside. Bryan Johnson, for example, is one of the few billionaires investing any money at all in anti-aging tech, even though so little money is going into it that it’s in their personal interest to form a coalition that invests >1% of their wealth into technological advancement in that area.
I think that brings up a good point, but the main reason not to work on trust tech is actually cultural (Ayn Rand type stuff), not out of self-interest. There’s actually tons of social status and org reputation to be gained from building technology that fixes a lot of problems, and it makes the world safer for the self-interested people building it.
It might not code as something their society values (e.g. cash return on investment) but the net upside is way bigger than the net downside. Bryan Johnson, for example, is one of the few billionaires investing any money at all in anti-aging tech, even though so little money is going into it that it’s in their personal interest to form a coalition that invests >1% of their wealth into technological advancement in that area.