Sam Altman

Can you build the space probe?

Can you wait, you know, a very long time?

Yeah, you know, maybe it's in the data.

Maybe we need to build better detectors, which the really advanced data could tell us how to do.

It may not be able to answer it on its own, but it may be able to tell us what to go build to collect more data.

I think I would just go about my life.

I mean, a version of that is like, what are you doing differently now that like, if GPT-4 told you and you believed it, okay, AGI is here or AGI is coming real soon.

What are you going to do differently?

Are we living now with a greater degree of digital intelligence than you would have expected three years ago in the world?

Much, much more, yeah.

And if you could go back and be told by an oracle three years ago, which is a blink of an eye, that in March of 2023, you will be living with this degree of digital intelligence, would you expect your life to be more different than it is right now?

Yeah, no, I think it is like good advice in some sense.

But I also think it's way too tempting to take advice from other people.

And the stuff that worked for me, which I tried to write down there, probably doesn't work that well or may not work as well for other people.

Or like other people may find out that they want to just have a super different life trajectory.

And I think I mostly...

got what I wanted by ignoring advice.

And I think, like, I tell people not to listen to too much advice.

Listening to advice from other people should be approached with great caution.

you know, introspective all the time.