Consider fixing your “published date” on the site.
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In some cases, choice of tech-stack can provide competitive advantage.
You could ask the CEO for specifics on competitive advantage Clojure provide and evaluate for yourself if it actually does.
The simplest question to answer would be opportunity cost. What will you lose if you do this for the amount time it needs to be done and nothing works out or you get fired when they finally start kicking-ass? If the answer is only "time spent," then I think its OK to just say yes if you have 500 Euros to gamble.
If the answer is more complicated than that, I suggest you evaluate it by answering some or all of following questions (in no particular order)
Market: 1. Are you convinced their pitch deck to you? 2. How long do you think it will take them to serve 0.5%-1% of their stated total addressable market? Is that reasonable time in your scheme of things
Team and execution: 3. Are you convinced that the founders/existing team will do everything they can to acquire customers? Is that "everything" good enough in your opinion? 4. How much do you think they will make your life miserable when they are in stress? Is that acceptable level of misery for 2-3 years? (corollary: I hope you are convinced they won't dump you at the first opportunity)
What can you do? 5. Do you have the bandwidth to execute things, on the side, while working full-time or part time? If you have to quit your job for the startup very soon, would you be able to execute (financial or otherwise)? Oftentimes, there is second guessing when the going gets tough -- so think about that too 6. How valuable is 500 Euros for you now? Can you blow it?
If answers to all the above ones point you in the direction of committing to this effort, you should consider asking for investor status. You should also consider asking for an upfront equity (for example: 0.5% of your 4% vesting on the day you pay 500 Euros) and no cliff.
So is the implicit assumption that machines will do what humans are doing ('bad' things) but at several orders of magnitude faster and without the ability to comprehend longer-term consequences of their actions any more than humans do at the present time?
I think answers to these questions will help me understand Sam's essay. Can you please help me?
1. What is superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) in the context of this essay ? [edited to add the qualifier]
2. What is the danger from SMI to humans and other current life forms that we are concerned about? It seems to me that concerns about SMI can be classified into two categories: (a) dangers to "our way of life (work, earn, spend)" and (b) dangers for existence of human race. Are we talking about both these categories? Perhaps other categories?
3. What anecdotes (or evidence) is leading to this concern?
Can you please elaborate?
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I somehow remember the original text to be
> And importantly, they started out doing something that any two programmers could have done.
There is nothing on the wayback machine either. Am I misremembering the original text?
One has to try though.