Stupendous amounts of venture capital money are still floating around, desperate for a home. The VCs want you to promise magic with technology. They will shower you with cash. Delivering on the mag…
True, but I want to be absolutely clear that this isn’t some kind of “efficiency” or “profit motive” or whatever. Making ever more obscene amounts of money is part of the goal, of course, but I think there’s a deeper motivation rooted in not wanting to acknowledge their responsibility for the problems they’re trying to solve without giving up the power they have over those institutions and organizations where those problems exist.
Next step is to do it without employees and datacenters. We will contact Turing (for the lesswrong fans, we will contact Von Neumann) via a seance (for a reasonable fee of course).
the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees
True, but I want to be absolutely clear that this isn’t some kind of “efficiency” or “profit motive” or whatever. Making ever more obscene amounts of money is part of the goal, of course, but I think there’s a deeper motivation rooted in not wanting to acknowledge their responsibility for the problems they’re trying to solve without giving up the power they have over those institutions and organizations where those problems exist.
Next step is to do it without employees and datacenters. We will contact Turing (for the lesswrong fans, we will contact Von Neumann) via a seance (for a reasonable fee of course).