Yup, AI is going to hack our banking system "accidentally" because it is so "powerful" and all that nonsense they have been feeding us. The reality is that the US is going to be unable to borrow long term debt or even service their existing debt so they need to switch to short term debt that they can control and steal citizen's interest through stable coin as outlined in the Genius Act.

This is the only real way forward without having to default, so it is likely it will happen before 2028.

All of those things make sense when there aren't constant headlines calling the regime you work for evil and pointing out daily all the bad things they are doing.

That's the difference between working for the government during presidents previous to Trump and working for the government now.

There are a lot of things you can do working for the government that in years previous to the cancer currently running the place now could be seen as valuable and important.

Doing research into the effects and safety of drugs, climate change research, allocating public funds to education and the park service etc. Testing food safety.

Those jobs are still important despite the fact that the Cheeto in Chief is wrecking everything he can get his hands on.

At the same time, there's jobs that people do where it's obvious that they are looking to reap benefits now and hoping those benefits will protect them in the future. Press Secretary, Political Advisor, Head of Homeland Security.

There's a line somewhere. Where you might be able to convince yourself that your work is important or meaningful or just plain not evil but you're absolutely not telling people what you do for a living because you know that they won't like it. People don't face backlash for being garbage men or forensic investigators or Hazmat cleanup.

The people building AI are getting a daily dose of the harms that AI causes. This industry popped up basically over night and this isn't a slow burn kind of thing. Its been moving fast and breaking things and ruining lives all in the public eye.

People also view their government as a sort of necessary evil. Psychologically that's different than any random corp.

I think I'm just saying that when you're faced day in and day out with the harm your work is doing, to the point where you recognize and admit it's doing harm, rather than being able to say "my work is insignificant and makes no difference", then rhere has to be something else.

Roko's Basilisk is stupid.

It presumes three things.

1. That human beings are logical and that they do anything with intention. For the vast majority of people, this is patently false.

2. That a super intelligence sees revenge as an efficient use of scarce resources, which given both that revenge is nonsensical without the prerequisite biological need for it, and the conclusion of '1', is nonsensical.

3. That even if 1 and 2 were real, that there's some inherent timeframe in which the AI thinks it should have been created.

The only real bodily danger of AI is inherent in the the humans who control it.

If both those premises hold

You're just doing Pascal's Wager For Computers.

Because he want to retire and cash out his equity after vesting in, so he hypes the power of AI out the door and dumps his options.

Your guess is as good as mine. There's lots of people working in industries that are actively killing us. The whole "no ethical consumption" bit extends pretty far. When you're poor it's acceptable to do "the best you can". As your economic standing grows/when you're rich, there are diminishing returns on how much sympathy society will give you over what they view as choosing to destroy the planet or humanity or whatever.

The view is that if you have money you can do something about it.

So maybe some of them think they are helping. Maybe some of them view it as a damned if I do damned if I don't type scenario. Maybe some of them think that the money will help them in the future that is coming.