To be clear, do also see the inspiration/excitement here, and don’t think they were necessarily making the wrong call.
My comment here is somewhat downstream of this romeostevens comment from awhile back:
Seems to me like what happens is that redirection of sex or survival drives get caught up in some sort of stable configuration where they can never be satisfied yet the person doesn’t notice that aspect of the loop and thus keeps Doing the Thing far past the time normal people notice. Essentially they’ve goodharted themselves in a way that creates positive externalities for others.
So, like, I think there’s something… off/weird about the way Elon Musk’s drives got wired, but, I still think it’s overall good to be in a world where some people get that runaway feedback loop.
To be clear, do also see the inspiration/excitement here, and don’t think they were necessarily making the wrong call.
My comment here is somewhat downstream of this romeostevens comment from awhile back:
So, like, I think there’s something… off/weird about the way Elon Musk’s drives got wired, but, I still think it’s overall good to be in a world where some people get that runaway feedback loop.