Peter Thiel made it to be one of the 16 people of Trump’s transition team. The transition team in turn will have a large role in choosing the makeup of the cabinet and thus what the Trump administration will do.
Let’s hope Peter Thiel is good at having his voice heard in the team and choosing good people for the positions.
Which statements do you mean? Do you think decisions like funding Vassar for MetaMed or Eliezer to research AGI suggest bad judgement?
If you don’t look at the decisions about how to fund with his own money, do you think the CEOs that funders fund chose in the last years were bad picks?
Unfortunately, there might be other reasons to support MIRI besides caring for an UFAI, such as, for example, getting a hold on promising AI research. Indeed OpenAI, if I recall correctly, has a laxer approach to such matters. Let me rephrase my question: has Thiel explicitly voiced any concern regarding AI (in both directions, research being too slow / too fast)?
Peter Thiel made it to be one of the 16 people of Trump’s transition team. The transition team in turn will have a large role in choosing the makeup of the cabinet and thus what the Trump administration will do.
Let’s hope Peter Thiel is good at having his voice heard in the team and choosing good people for the positions.
Given his statements in recent years I highly doubt he will be good at choosing good people.
Which statements do you mean? Do you think decisions like funding Vassar for MetaMed or Eliezer to research AGI suggest bad judgement?
If you don’t look at the decisions about how to fund with his own money, do you think the CEOs that funders fund chose in the last years were bad picks?
“Good people” by your standards or by his?
What’s Thiel thought about AGI?
There’s a good chance that LW wouldn’t exist without Thiel funding. Peter Thiel is the primary funder of MIRI. He’s also involved in funding OpenAI.
Unfortunately, there might be other reasons to support MIRI besides caring for an UFAI, such as, for example, getting a hold on promising AI research. Indeed OpenAI, if I recall correctly, has a laxer approach to such matters.
Let me rephrase my question: has Thiel explicitly voiced any concern regarding AI (in both directions, research being too slow / too fast)?
I think Peter Thiel suggest that FAI research is generally underfunded and thus warrants more funding and that’s why he gives it money.
So he went over to the dark side...let’s hope that he’d be able to contrast that war mongering general