Of course, the psychological poetry of the moment is that this is a showdown between two different mentalities of risk: Lutnick as a bond trader of the 1980s, and Amodei as a researcher with effective altruist leanings of the 2010s.
Both are from traditions finely tuned to assessing risk, but through wildly different methods of knowing.
For the trader of that vintage, the risk is known through the position taken - the chips placed on the board in a dynamic, uncertain situation. For the EA of that vintage, the risk is known through the model, the forecast, and the clear argument.
Two different languages really are being spoken here.
The psychological makeup of one man - Howard Lutnick - continues to be one of the single most important factors in the trajectory of takeoff