Previous comment of mine contains an error. Apparently Eliezer_1996 did go on the record as saying that, given a hundred million dollars per year, he would have a “reasonable chance” of doing it in nine years. He was thinking of brute-forcing AI via Manhattan Project and heuristic soup, and wasn’t thinking about Friendliness at all, but still.
Previous comment of mine contains an error. Apparently Eliezer_1996 did go on the record as saying that, given a hundred million dollars per year, he would have a “reasonable chance” of doing it in nine years. He was thinking of brute-forcing AI via Manhattan Project and heuristic soup, and wasn’t thinking about Friendliness at all, but still.