Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI • Hacker News Board

Post by pdimitar » Sat, Mar 03, 2018, 10:29 PM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #110

pdimitar wrote: post #108

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Apologies for the off-topic question but I am simply too tempted not to ask them, I admit: How does one make a living out of being an AGI researcher? How does one pay mortgage and has money and freedom to go on impulsive vacations with their wife? And what does an AGI practitioner even mean?

How does one make a living out of being an AGI researcher? How does one pay mortgage and has money and freedom to go on impulsive vacations with their wife? Well you don't, unless you work for OpenAI (which I don't). Not sure how OpenAI does it or how well they pay but I'm sure it's good. They have good donors. And what does an AGI practitioner even mean? To clarify, I'm a ML practitioner. AGI practitioner means noth…

I don't mean to sound demeaning but yes, IMO "AGI practitioner" indeed means nothing (and I am saying that as a guy who aspires to work on AGI). Many of us programmers have interesting ideas in the area of AGI but quite frankly, we can "practice" them our whole lives without achieving squat.

Thank you for responding, much appreciated.