Musk definitely understands and believes in an intelligence explosion of some sort. I don’t know about Thiel.
Thiel used to donate to MIRI but I just searched about him after reading your comment and saw this:
“The biggest risk with AI is that we don’t go big enough. Crusoe is here to liberate us from the island of limited ambition.”
(In this December 2024 article)
He’s using e/acc talking points to promote a company.
I still consider him a futurist, but it’s possible he is so optimistic about AGI/ASI that he’s more concerned about the culture war than about it.
Musk definitely understands and believes in an intelligence explosion of some sort. I don’t know about Thiel.
Thiel used to donate to MIRI but I just searched about him after reading your comment and saw this:
“The biggest risk with AI is that we don’t go big enough. Crusoe is here to liberate us from the island of limited ambition.”
(In this December 2024 article)
He’s using e/acc talking points to promote a company.
I still consider him a futurist, but it’s possible he is so optimistic about AGI/ASI that he’s more concerned about the culture war than about it.