alt Hacker NewsIt's fascinating how most people still don't get it.
ASI is basically a god. This is the ultimate solution (or problem). It will push us to the singularity, and create an utopia or drive humanity to extinction. Imagine someone who is so smart that would win every single nobel prize available, and make multiple discoveries in a matter of a year. And now multiply this person's intelligence by 100 (most likely more, but 100 is already hard enough to grasp). There's no point in investing in anything else. An investment in ASI is an investment in everything (could be a bad one though, depending on the outcome).
The government is banking on being able to control it, which is also pretty funny. It's like a pet hamster thinking they can dictate what a human does.
This type of comment is another thing I don't quite understand -- as if no one but AI proponents have heard of the Singularity. "There's no point in investing in anything else" is a very presumptive, fact-free idea. It's just begging the question. Many promising false starts have occurred in this area. Predictions from technologists such as Kurzweil have been wrong more than they've been right.