That sounds like really exciting news to me

Well, keep in mind that Eliezer himself claims that "it's not as exciting as it sounds".

And of course you always need to have in mind that what Eliezer considers to be "the secret answer to the hard problem of conscious experience" may not be as satisfying an answer to you as it is to him.

After all, some people think that the non-secret answer to the hard problem of conscious experience is something like "consciousness is what an algorithm feels like from the inside" and this is quite non-satisfactory to me (and I think it was non-satisfactory to Eliezer too).

(And also, I think the bidding started at something like $4000.)