Maybe it was worse to be right about AI

Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) Dylan Matthews at Vox recently lamented how he d gotten it so very wrong about AI . He d gone to an Effective Altruism conference (EA Global SF) in 2015, so very early-days EA (I came to the movement in 2013 or so, and took the Giving What We Can pledge in 2016). There was lots of talk of how an artificial intelligence could…