Many are working on interesting research like robotics or bringing about AGI, but to me it is very obvious that there is an existential quest to prove goodness of technology and AI in the immediate future that is more pressing than anything else. It shocks me that the insiders discount the very real probability of this scenario which historically only took 3-5% of the population. We must focus on democratization of high quality services that benefit the public enabled by technology. It is the only way to align the civilization for us to 100x data center buildout, necessary ingredient for jumping to the next stage. Dawdling time in the middle with limited production and inference while wealth doesn’t actually inflect exponentially - this is a bad ending for civilization, and mars will not be ready before then
