If you buy Altman's Wager and work at a frontier lab, then you are effectively trying to call into existence an all powerful techno-god that is owned by one company.

· Bits and Bobs 8/24/26
  • If you buy Altman's Wager and work at a frontier lab, then you are effectively trying to call into existence an all powerful techno-god that is owned by one company.
    • … That's dangerous and ick on its face.
    • The only way to justify it is "well if we don't do it then someone else will and we're more pure of heart than they are, so it's better for it to be us."
    • But literally every single entrant thinks that because of the fundamental attribution bias.