That does not look like a plan to me, it looks like two!
One to make a lot of money and one to save the world with a lot of money.
And lot of smart people look for plans to make a lot of money, lot of those same people have “throw an AI at it” as an hypothesis in their toolkit and are technically minded, competent in STEM, so it does not seem like an interesting direction to look at.
I do agree that it would be interesting to have a plan on how to effectively use a lot of money if we get it in whatever way but I would be quite surprised if “whatever way” ends up being “the community earns it” rather than “we convince some ultrarich like Elon Musk or some governments to give us a lot of money”.
I think you are right! Maybe I should have actually written different posts about each of these two plans.
And yes, I agree with you that maybe the most likely way of doing what I propose is getting someone ultra rich to back it. That idea has the advantage that it can be done immediately, without waiting for a Math AI to be available.
To me it still seems important to think of what kind of strategical advantages we can obtain with a Math AI. Maybe it is possible to gain a lot more than money (I gave the example of zero-day exploits, but we can most likely get a lot of other valuable technology as well).
That does not look like a plan to me, it looks like two! One to make a lot of money and one to save the world with a lot of money. And lot of smart people look for plans to make a lot of money, lot of those same people have “throw an AI at it” as an hypothesis in their toolkit and are technically minded, competent in STEM, so it does not seem like an interesting direction to look at.
I do agree that it would be interesting to have a plan on how to effectively use a lot of money if we get it in whatever way but I would be quite surprised if “whatever way” ends up being “the community earns it” rather than “we convince some ultrarich like Elon Musk or some governments to give us a lot of money”.
I think you are right! Maybe I should have actually written different posts about each of these two plans.
And yes, I agree with you that maybe the most likely way of doing what I propose is getting someone ultra rich to back it. That idea has the advantage that it can be done immediately, without waiting for a Math AI to be available.
To me it still seems important to think of what kind of strategical advantages we can obtain with a Math AI. Maybe it is possible to gain a lot more than money (I gave the example of zero-day exploits, but we can most likely get a lot of other valuable technology as well).