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JacobThreeThree | 5 months ago

This does not make any sense. There's far more economic opportunity with AGI.

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idle_zealot|5 months ago

> There's far more economic opportunity with

Is there? Creating AGI sounds like a great way to utterly upend every assumption that our economy and governments are built on. It would be incredibly destabilizing. That's not typically good for business. There's no telling who will profit once that genie is out of the bottle, or if profit will even continue to be a meaningful concept.

xmprt|5 months ago

I hear this comment a lot and I don't get it. Let's say AGI exists but it costs $100/hr to operate and it has the intelligence of a good PhD student. Does that suddenly mean that the economy breaks down or will the goalposts shift to AGI being "economical" and that PhD level isn't good enough? I still haven't gotten a heard a clear definition of AGI which makes me think that it will break the world.

afavour|5 months ago

But if it’s more than a few years out then investors will start getting upset. They want money and are short term minded.

eru|5 months ago

Why not do both?