At least he didn't say *$10T/year capital flow rate*, which is the figure that a co-founder of the DoE EIA held out to me as the lure from Biden's then newly appointed Cabinet level position of Science Advisor, to deal with *global warming*. I'd spent several years, during my caregiving for my wife's long decline under Huntington's Disease, working up a CO2 -> algae biomass macroengineering plan which very well could have "worked" to capture all CO2 effluents from US elex in a pipeline to the desert Southwest photobioreactors. But that "solution" was only marginally economic compared to what could be accomplished in the eastern equatorial Pacific given synthetic atoll wavebreaks for the PBRs, which would depopulate land areas in favor of beachfront real estate and local recycling of all wastes while rewilding the rainforests, farm lands and reviving natural fisheries.
The key technological risks are yet to be addressed in that dress rehearsal for space habitats but they are FAR less than the risk that "matrix multiplication hardware" is *the* way to go to scale up intelligence to the point that we can solve all the other technical risks with such macroengineering projects. The fools won't back The Hutter Prize approach to avoiding The Hardware Lottery which, although it is far from the *only* such approach that should be funded, is an excellent *example* of how one can avoid *risk* that scaling up investment to *trillions* will be blind to avenues one should be pursuing from a vastly superior perspective. On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 8:28 AM Bill Hibbard via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote: > At 76 years old I can afford to find the humor in this: > > https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/openai-chief-looking-to-raise-trillions-to-reshape-semiconductor-sector-wsj/ar-BB1i0ExD > > Looking forward to the Beneficial AGI Summit. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T47dbcc8649ba2a9e-M9888f4dbd8d72ed502858fa0 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
