[kalkin]

> "all were inspired by LW"

Evidence?

> "no need to care about people living today or real problems in the world"

Nobody says this.

> "trillions of people in the future"

Weird longtermists who talk about this are a small minority even among AI doomers.

> "AI godfathers comfort, status, or money"

I'm not suggesting anyone feel sorry for Geoff Hinton but quitting your Google job does seem like a pretty obvious sacrifice of money.

But I dunno you packed so much confusion into two sentences that I doubt you're going to let any messy details get in the way of picking a side based on an attempt at populism (including the fact that you're aligning yourself with Marc Andreesen and Zuckerberg).

[throwaway72762]

Eh, one can dislike the longtermists and the non-longtermist plutocrats. I'd say there's good reason to dislike both, but for different reasons.