I think a better model is meaning (or self-actualization). There’s some meaning to be found in being a tragic hero racing to build AGI “”“safely””” who is killed by an unfair universe. Much less to be found in an unsuccessful policy advocate who tried and failed to get because it was politically intractable, which was obvious to everyone from the start.
I think most of the people involved like working with the smartest and most competent people alive today, on the hardest problems, in order to build a new general intelligence for the first time since the dawn of humanity, in exchange for massive amounts of money, prestige, fame, and power. This is what I refer to by ‘glory’.
I think of it as ‘glory’.
I think a better model is meaning (or self-actualization). There’s some meaning to be found in being a tragic hero racing to build AGI “”“safely””” who is killed by an unfair universe. Much less to be found in an unsuccessful policy advocate who tried and failed to get because it was politically intractable, which was obvious to everyone from the start.
I think most of the people involved like working with the smartest and most competent people alive today, on the hardest problems, in order to build a new general intelligence for the first time since the dawn of humanity, in exchange for massive amounts of money, prestige, fame, and power. This is what I refer to by ‘glory’.