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Wasted opportunity to guarantee this post keeps getting holywar comments for the next hundred years.

This is pretty inspiring to me. Thank you for sharing.

I suspect it would still involve billions of $ of funding, partnerships like the one with Microsoft, and other for-profit pressures to be the sort of player it is today. So I don't know that Musk's plan was viable at all.

Note that all of this happened before the scaling hypothesis was really formulated, much less made obvious.

We now know, with the benefit of hindsight that developing AI and it's precursors is extremely compute intensive, which means capital intensive. There was some reason to guess this might be true at the time, but it wasn't a forgone conclusion—it was still an open question if the key to AGI would be mostly some technical innovation that hadn't been developed yet.

Those people don't get substantial equity in most business in the world. They generally get paid a salary and benefits in exchange for their work, and that's about it.

Haven't looked too closely at this, but since there are some upvotes, wanted to comment with my initial two thoughts:

1. child consent is tricky.
2. likely many are foreign children, which may or may not be in the 75 million statistic

It is good to think critically, but I think it would be beneficial to present more evidence before making the claim or conclusion

The other day I was trying to think of information leaks that a competent conspiracy couldn't prevent, regarding this. I just thought of one small one: people will sometimes randomly die or have their homes raided. If the slavery is common, then sometimes the slaves will be discovered during these events. Even if the escapees wanted to silence the story out of shame, cops would probably gossip to the press.

So you can probably tally such events, crunch the numbers, and get a decent conspiracy-resistant estimate.

As a layman, I have not seen much unrealistic hype. I think the hype-level is just about right.

You should not bury such a good post in a shortform

Maybe it should be a game that everyone can play

You didn't ask me to pitch you but I will say a short pitch here for any bystanders. I know how to how find a handful of good people and I know how to let a good chef cook without isolating them either. And I can make a pretty good fried egg if we're starving.

One funny weak bit of evidence for my lack of politicking is that I have like six co-authored papers but no first-authored papers.