He recently described his love of computers as rooted in realizing that “they won’t talk back to you.” The job he wanted at Meta was “Dictator of VR.” When some

He recently described his love of computers as rooted in realizing that “they won’t talk back to you.” The job he wanted at Meta was “Dictator of VR.” When someone talks AI ethics to him, he just tunes out because he doesn’t think it’s worth even considering until they are fully sentient as the level of a human toddler, at which point you can turn them on and off and modify their development until you have a perfect worker. His reason for working in AI is that he thinks it’s where a single human can have the largest leverage on history. All that paraphrased from the Lex interview. I see him as the guy who builds the “be anything do anything” singularity, but then adds a personal “god mode” to use whenever the vote goes the wrong way. Straight out of a Stephenson novel. On the other hand, he’s not boring!