I’ve tried less hard to get core FAI researchers than funding. I suspect that given sufficient funding produced by magic, it would be possible to solve the core-FAI-researchers issue by finding the people and talking to them directly—but I haven’t tried it!
How much money would you need magicked to allow you to shed fundraising and infrastructure, etc, and just hire and hole up with a dream team of hyper-competent maths wonks? Restated, at which set amount would SIAI be comfortably able to aggressively pursue its long-term research?
I’ve tried less hard to get core FAI researchers than funding. I suspect that given sufficient funding produced by magic, it would be possible to solve the core-FAI-researchers issue by finding the people and talking to them directly—but I haven’t tried it!
How much money would you need magicked to allow you to shed fundraising and infrastructure, etc, and just hire and hole up with a dream team of hyper-competent maths wonks? Restated, at which set amount would SIAI be comfortably able to aggressively pursue its long-term research?
He once mentioned a figure of US $10 million / year. Feels like he’s made a similar remark more recently, but it didn’t show in my brief search.