Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

They are talking about slowing down the public facing AI development. Because then nation states can create a capabilities gap between them and the public.

Why does nobody seem to be pointing out this obvious explanation? It explains why the “we need to race China” concern suddenly vanished in the discussion.

The government can simply gag Sam, Dario, Musk on national security basis, getting them all behind the public messaging.

I have to wonder if some us are just much more inured to salespeople and thus also to "AI Safety" propaganda. I've yet to have a logical discussion with anyone who thinks the "AI Safety" people should be in charge and I think they just truly don't that what most them actually want is to be the one holding the keys to power.

AI hits a "I'm Spartacus, and everybody else should be regulated" moment.

If anyone is going to end humanity why not catgirls, after all?

> Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

Who's said this? And then more broadly I guess who's implied this? Very curious if there are specific articles/posts prompting this.

No one should have nuclear weapons except for me. Oh you already have them too? OK, just us then.

Whatever happened to Musk's plan for data centers in orbit? That seemed silly at the time. It offers a way to get out from under restrictions imposed by national governments, which might make it worthwhile.

China won't slow down no matter how many tariffs, regulations or bombs they drop on them

And they know it

A lot of people in this comments section seem to be against this, i genuinely don't get it? Why? Do you think the current state of affairs is GOOD? That if we let companies create a mind that is, AS OF TODAY, able to solve problems no human in history has solved, with no regulation, things will end up good for us? We need some sort of regulations, some sort of method to help ensure the thing we are creating ends up good, instead of just running headfirst into it blindly. I assure you, any sort of regulation at all, including ones that actually hurt all leading companies, would be met with celebrations from these voices. https://www.seangoedecke.com/they-really-do-think-ai-might-k...

These people are so fucking exhausting.

And then Dario wants to recommend METR as the "independent evaluator" while he stacks their org full of ex-Anthropic (aka, secretly still on the Anthropic payroll with huge equity) employees.

"We'll give them a desk, an office, a work laptop, ..."

Fucking make it less obvious. I kind of hope the govt steps in at this point and says "Anthropic, you wanted regulation? We've created this actually independent body full of IT professionals with zero ties to your safety industry or big tech, all of your work must now go through them." - and leave the rest of the world alone to continue their research/work without acting like doomer extremists.

Watch him 180 immediately if that happened. The only reason he's pushing for this exact approach is because he's stacked the deck.

I don't understand where everyone insists on hallucinating this idea from, that frontier AI labs want everyone else but not themselves to slow down. They've never said that, they've never said anything like that, not once has anyone pointed me to a quote that could be even plausibly interpreted that way.

I fully agree with this. I'm waiting for you to not wait for the others to slow down. I will sit and wait.

As someone who wants cat ears, I believe that doing it responsibly is the only way.

Slow down AI progress -> increase catgirl progress!

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Amen. This is the only logical way forward.

Honestly not the worst suggestion I’ve seen.

I'm not sure I understand the point made by the author.

Everyone thinks about it, but no one actually does it.

Does this mean I'm going to have to wait for the cure for my colitis?