On: Zuckerberg, Musk Invest in Artificial-Intelligence Company Vicarious

[SuperChihuahua]

This fits Elon Musk's vision. He had 3 main and 2 smaller things that in the future will most affect the future of humanity.

Main: the Internet, the transition to a sustainable energy economy, and space exploration, particularly extension of life to multiple planets

Smaller: artificial intelligence and biology

[skadamat → SuperChihuahua]

Yup he put his $ where his mouth was, he invested in all 5 (for biology he invested in halcyon molecular, which shut down a year back)

[Houshalter → SuperChihuahua]

If AI succeeds, then none of those other things will matter at all.

[r00fus → Houshalter]

> If AI succeeds, then none of those other things will matter at all.

Define success. Now define for whom - the investors? mankind? The AIs themselves?

[Houshalter → r00fus]

As in an Intelligence Explosion (http://intelligence.org/ie-faq/.) "Success" is really a bad way of wording it, I just mean if it happens, none of those things will matter. Regardless whether it is friendly or not. Either we go extinct or the AI is so far beyond us, our present progress doesn't make much difference.

[z3phyr → SuperChihuahua]

Space technology roughly covers all the other 4 aspects!