Inyash Brodsky

I think a lot of the time the tech people just want to do their thing and not be bothered by the government and pay their taxes or whatever and like, please stay away from us.

And that's never worked out well for them.

One of the... I mean, there's a few dumb Bill Gates quotes that I have in my head, like the how many K should be enough for everybody thing, and it was like 19K of memory.

I don't remember the exact number.

But one of the ones that really stuck is that after Microsoft was sued...

almost out of existence by the government for including Microsoft Explorer with Windows, the browser that no one uses anyway.

Bill Gates said, I think the biggest mistake I made with Microsoft was not getting involved with the government earlier.

As in, he didn't give donations to the parties.

He didn't, like, kiss up to the government.

He just kept them at a distance and then eventually they came for him and he thought that was a mistake.

Just to protect his own company, he should have gotten involved in the government in some way to be like, ah, here's your gold.

Please, please don't come after us.

And I think tech has been like this for a long time.

But the thing that Eliezer pointed out here is the government has now come directly after what AI company, the people making AIs, their reason for existence.

Like, we've said this on more than one occasion, but...

Without any hyperbole, we kind of think that... I don't know why I'm including me in this, because I'm not working on this at all, but the tech people who work on AI, we kind of think we're making the successor to the human species maybe functionally a small god to...

help us take over the universe like this is a new being that is probably going to be far more powerful than any of us could wipe us out could make us ascend to the stars not entirely an exaggeration to say like we're working on creating god and hoping that it's going to be the best god we can make and uh the government just came in and said

No, whatever you make, we're going to take it.

What you do doesn't matter.

This is ours.