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> "the cultural zeitgeist has centered on the idea of runaway progress: artificial intelligence recursively improving itself until we become subservient to it. far more plausible .. a world where the curve flattens and our rate of progress slows to a crawl."

> "our mission should remain the same: accelerate to the maximum extent possible."

I think you need to justify why hurrying to be AI servants should be our mission :-|

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You're right, I should have tied that back to the opening.

The acceleration we've experienced has allowed us to "outrun" our problems. In earlier generations, that meant famine or disease. Today, it might be climate change. Tomorrow, it'll be something else entirely.

Technological progress has generally been the reason humanity should be optimistic against challenges: it gives us ever improving tools to solve our hardest problems faster than we succumb to them. Without it, that optimism becomes much harder to justify.

Even if there is a plateau we can't cross, if we believe we drive more benefit from technology than the problems it creates, it makes sense to extract as much progress as we can from the physics we have.

AI training helps as to fight the climate change? If anything until now the opposite has been true.

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