If you don't believe that a foom is the most likely outcome(a common and not unreasonable position) then it's probably better to have lots of weakly-superhuman AI than a single weakly-superhuman AI.
Even in that case, whichever actor has the most processors would have the largest "AI farm", with commensurate power projection.
From their website, it looks like they'll be doing a lot of deep learning research and making the results freely available, which doesn't sound like it would accelerate Friendly AI relative to AI as a whole. I hope they've thought this through.
Edit: It continues to look like their strategy might be counterproductive. [Edited again in response to this.]
That interview is indeed worrying. I'm surprised by some of the answers.
Great news! I've been waiting for this kind of thing.
More likely, he also "always thought that way," and the extreme story was written to provide additional drama.
Thank you for replicating the experiment!
Where are you getting that much money?
Somewhat upper middle class job; low cost of living, inexpensive hobbies, making donations a priority.
I donated $5000 today and continue my $1000 monthly donations.
So MIRI and LW are no longer a focus for you going forward?
This is a tangent, but to light up the whole environment just to get a few more photons to the retina is a strange approach, even if it seems to be the go-to treatment (light boxes etc.). Why not just light up the retina with a portable device, say glasses with some LED lights tacked on. That way you can take your enlightenment with you! Could be polarised to reflect indirectly off of the glasses into your eye, with little stray radiation.
Not saying that you should McGyver that yourself, but I was surprised that such a solution did not seem to exist.
But, it's hard to have a truly original thought, so when I googled it I found this. Seems like a good idea, no? Same principle as your artificial sky, if one would work, so should the other.
Also, as an aside to the tangent, tangent is a strange phrase, since it doesn't actually touch the main point. Should be polar line or somesuch.
Skin reacts to light, too.
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How big a deal is this? What, if anything, does it signal about when we get smarter than human AI?
Eliezer thinks it's a big deal.