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•I agree that there's gap between when rich individuals see the benefits of existential risk research and when the general public sees the benefits of existential risk research.
•The gap may nevertheless be inconsequential relative to the time that it will take to build a general AI.
•I presently believe that it's not desirable for general AI research to be done in secret. Secret research proceeds slower than open research, and we may be "on the clock" because of existential risks unrelated to general AI. In my mind this factor outweighs the arguments that Eliezer has advanced for general AI research being done in secret.
That, and secrets are damn hard to keep. In all of history, there has only been one military secret that has never been exposed, and that's the composition of Greek fire. Someone is going to leak.