“The present situation can be seen as one in which a common resource, the remaining timeline until AGI shows up, is incentivized to be burned by AI researchers because they have to come up with neat publications and publish them (which burns the remaining timeline) in order to earn status and higher salaries”
Bear in mind that in reality, there is a demand for cutting edge AI to be mounted on nuclear cruise missiles, and that no person, group, or movement can prevent the military from procuring the nuclear weapons technology that it claims is neccesary for nuclear deterrence. It will only ruin the person, group, or movement that tries, because they are on the wrong side of history.
“The present situation can be seen as one in which a common resource, the remaining timeline until AGI shows up, is incentivized to be burned by AI researchers because they have to come up with neat publications and publish them (which burns the remaining timeline) in order to earn status and higher salaries”
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Bear in mind that in reality, there is a demand for cutting edge AI to be mounted on nuclear cruise missiles, and that no person, group, or movement can prevent the military from procuring the nuclear weapons technology that it claims is neccesary for nuclear deterrence. It will only ruin the person, group, or movement that tries, because they are on the wrong side of history.