You said you weren’t replying to any specific point Eliezer was making, but I think it’s worth pointing out that when he brings up Alpha Go, he’s not talking about the 2 years it took Google to build a Go-playing AI—remarkable and surprising as that was—but rather the 3 days it took Alpha Zero to go from not knowing anything about the game beyond the basic rules to being better than all humans and the earlier AIs.
You said you weren’t replying to any specific point Eliezer was making, but I think it’s worth pointing out that when he brings up Alpha Go, he’s not talking about the 2 years it took Google to build a Go-playing AI—remarkable and surprising as that was—but rather the 3 days it took Alpha Zero to go from not knowing anything about the game beyond the basic rules to being better than all humans and the earlier AIs.