I'm all for putting effort into the little extraordinary, we just have different definitions of extraordinary.

A little extraordinary is building a human type brain stuff. By type I mean limited in its self-understanding due to complex hacked together constantly changing code. Then spreading it to enough people so that any one persons respective mental problems get evened out so the society thus created is not dominated by any one group. Convincing the society that we might need to relax privacy might before we get super plagues, is also a little extraordinary.

Very extraordinary is building something that understands itself and the laws of physics enough to be able to expand itself exponentially taking over nearby space uploading all of humanity into a simulation where death was not allowed. And getting it right first time.

It is not sadness in the future that means I do not want to be there, it is perpetual responsibility. I only want temporary responsibility, because it is mentally draining, however I do want responsibility while I am alive.