What I mean is that he'd be interested in working for MIRI, but not, say, OpenAI, or even a startup where he'd be doing lots of deep learning, if he overcomes his phobia.
It might be that his interest in FAI is tied to his phobia so if the phobia goes away, so may the interest...
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