It is starting to become clear to more and more people that Sam is a dyed in the wool True Believer in AGI. While it's obvious in hindsight that OpenAI would never have gotten anywhere if he wasn't, seeing it so starkly is really rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.
One of my favorites is Amphora of Great Intelligence by the artist David Revoy.
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1090/the-amphora-of-great-...
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1092/the-amphora-of-great-...
it's even worse than that and i hope people recognize that it's not that he's a True Believer (though the TBs are often hilarious)
it's that he has no ethics to speak of at all. it's not that he's out of touch, it's that he simply does not care.
Well, in the world where AGI is created and it goes suboptimally, everybody gets turned into computronium and goes extinct, which is a prospect some are miffed about. And, in the world where it goes well, no decision of any consequence is made by a human being ever again, since the computer has planned every significant life event since before their birth. Free will in a very literal sense will have been erased. Sam being a true believer means he is not going to stop working until one of these worlds comes true. People who understand the stakes are understandably irked by him.
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