alt Hacker NewsBeing part of the team that achieved AGI first would be to write your name in history forever. That could mean more to people than money.
Also 10m would be a drop in the bucket compared to being a shareholder of a company that has achieved AGI; you could also imagine the influence and fame that comes with it.
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skybrian • last Saturday at 4:51 PM
"The grass is greener elsewhere" isn't inconsistent with a belief that AGI will happen somewhere.
It means you don't have much faith that the company you're working at will be the ones to pull it off.
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raincole • last Saturday at 3:09 PM
> Being part of the team that achieved AGI first would be to write your name in history forever. That could mean more to people than money.
Uh, sure. How many rocket engineers who worked for moon landing could you name?
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tharkun__ • last Saturday at 11:54 AM
*some people
Kind of a sucker move here since you personally will 100% be forgotten. We are only going to remember one or two people who did any of this. Say Sam Altman and Ilya Sttsveker. Everyone else will be forgotten. The authors or the Transformer paper are unlikely to make it into the history books or even popular imagination. Think about the Manhattan Project. We recently made a movie remembering that one guy who did something on the Manhattan Project, but he will soon fade back into obscurity. Sometimes people say that it was about Einstein's theory of relativity. The only people who know who folks like Ulam were are physicists. The legions of technicians who made it all come together are totally forgotten. Same with the space program or the first computer or pretty much any engineering marvel.