Are you claiming (a non-negligible probability) that Eliezer would be a worse programmer if he’d decided to take up programming instead of AI research (perhaps because he would have worked on boring projects and given up?), or that he isn’t competent enough to get hired as a programmer now?
Are you claiming (a non-negligible probability) that Eliezer would be a worse programmer if he’d decided to take up programming instead of AI research (perhaps because he would have worked on boring projects and given up?), or that he isn’t competent enough to get hired as a programmer now?