Comment by throwawayk7h
11 hours ago
Mind you, he is only personally invested insofar as he's staked his reputation on it. Throughout his writing, he expresses the same point over and over again: desperately wants AI to slow down, advocates for politics that would slow it down, and most likely nothing would bring him greater peace than to see a sigmoid curve appear.
How convenient; when AGI doesn’t appear in 1-2 years his reputation is pristine because he slowed it down.
To make that argument you'd want to show some causal link which so far we haven't seen.
What do you want? This sounds like you have something against people making a claim in public, at all, on any topic of importance.