Using this statement to describe Elon Musk and Sam Altman seems to imply that founding a single AI company is much more important than privatizing spaceflight, inventing practical self-driving cars and leading Y-Combinator.
From Eliezer’s perspective that’s the case. Privatized spaceflight or self-driving cars won’t change the likelihood that humanity survives signficiantly and Eliezer sees the amount of value that can be created if humanity survives and there’s FAI as big enough that those other things are relatively unimportant.
From Eliezer’s perspective that’s the case. Privatized spaceflight or self-driving cars won’t change the likelihood that humanity survives signficiantly and Eliezer sees the amount of value that can be created if humanity survives and there’s FAI as big enough that those other things are relatively unimportant.