Why not? Currently, the AGI efforts in the world seem to be like, openAI and deepmind. None of them have as their primary aim of building safe AGI.
Why don't we just get a few billion dollars together as a community, put everyone really smart somewhere, and just, go for it? Before openAI or Deepmind does. Sure, lots to research happening in AI safety, but it doesn't seem like any of this research will find it's way to openAI or Deepmind, anyway. Seems unlikely with incentives as misaligned as they are.
So, creating an organization with its primary aim to build safe AGI, and no other aims, at all, fully and only funded by EA money seems at least worth the attempt given how much money this community should have soon.
(Also thousands of hours of meditation). I didn't get any of this. But, somehow, it seems meaningful. I did get some of it.
Anyway as a long-term meditator myself. There is definitely something 'here', which is also truly profound (and very mundane). For me the profound part of it is that 'experience' becomes intrinsically meaning-laded, adventurous, deep. There is also a sense of 'going somewhere' that wasn't there before. Like, wow, you can change your mind in fundamental ways; that is fun. And like, the quality of your experience can become truly better and better over time. Before my experience was one of 'make more money, more status, more things, more EA status'.... (read more)