The Future of Computing

I feel like Miri gets a bad rap because sure, they made some technical bets and they didn't quite work out. So I'm pretty sympathetic to the Yudkovsky view. But my personal view is kind of like, we're at the point. This is a strategic decision. Like, okay, if I knew I had 50 years, I'd probably work on Miri-like stuff. But I'm like, all right, I don't have 50 years. It's not obvious that this is 100 years away or something like this. Things always feel impossibly far away until they're not. People thought flying machines were hundreds of years away the day before it happened.

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