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Good article, Musk's logic seems more sound than most of SV. Of course he's also the one building cars and rockets while everyone else's business boils down to fancy websites.

I admire his individualism. For such an innovative place, I find SV to be one of the loudest echo chambers in the world. God help you if you're Republican and if you use jQuery in 2017 you might as well kill yourself. There's a cult mentality, a smugness among those drinking the koolaid that they're somehow better than everyone else.

To me, messing with AI feels like what would've happened if nuclear energy had been discovered by private industry. We have 1000's of companies competing, tinkering, trying to build the smartest AI to power their systems. Right now, nobody has any idea if we're 5% away from prompt critical and an immense all consuming fireball. Well, maybe a few companies know, but its "proprietary information". As the past has proven repeatedly, private industry has no issues playing with something wildly dangerous.

Historically, most regulation starts life as a knee-jerk reaction to companies doing terrible things. Especially in staunchly capitalist societies like the US, where the government is seen as a necessary evil. I hope human military is enough to stop the first singularity from destroying the earth so we can get some reasonable regulations in place.