This has been pointed out a couple times, but Eliezer and the other leaders of SIAI don't have nearly as high a standard of living as they could easily have working for a big tech company, which doesn't require any extraordinary level of skill. Given that established programmers have been impressed with EY's general intelligence and intuition, I find it highly likely that he could have gone this route if he'd wanted.
Now, you could allege that he instead became the poorly paid head of an x-risk charity in order to feel more self-important. But suggesting the motive of greed is nonsensical.
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That you people permanently try to accuse me of some base motives does only reinforce my perception that there is not enough doubt and cr...
I just watched Transcendent Man about the singularity and Ray Kurzweil in particular. It's well-made, full-length, and includes the most popular criticisms of Kurzweil: that his prediction timeframes are driven by his own hope for immortality, that the timescale of his other predictions are too optimistic, that his predictions about the social outcomes of revolutionary technology are naively optimistic, and so on. Ben Goertzel and others get much face time.
You can rent or buy it on iTunes.