alt Hacker News> We need to build it as fast as possible because it could cure all disease
Hell no. We need to risk pumping out even more CO2, causing more environmental disaster, ruining entire human communities, just to cure diseases? You might as well say it's better to be in prison because you're guaranteed three meals a day. The logic of some pro-AI people is baffling.
They believe they're building a magic genie. If one holds that view, it seems reasonable to make nearly every trade off to get there as you can do anything you want once you have magic in a bottle.