[daze42]

This 100%. We're in the middle of an AI Manhattan Project and if "we" give up or slow down, another company or country will get AGI before "us" and there's no coming back after that. If there's a chance AGI is possible, it doesn't make sense to let someone else take the lead no matter how dangerous it could be.

[rep_lodsb]

The better analogy would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Stargate

"If there's a chance psychic powers are real..."