e/acc co-founder @bayeslord argues that AI pause proponents aim to restrict competitors' research rather than their own
Open-source communities share this skepticism of dominant AI labs
Many users criticize the Pause AI letter as a ploy to hinder rivals and protect valuations rather than ensure safety, while others simply affirm the same critique.
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@bayeslord No idea if you are persuadable or all-in on maximum acceleration, but is it possible they want to actually build pause capacity for the reasons they have given?
@bayeslord “This is a lot easier if all our competitors just stop you know…. Competing”
They didn’t mean pause AI research, they meant pause *your* AI research
@bayeslord YESSSS
@bayeslord You are sheltering graphical processing units, are you not?
@bayeslord Bayes gets it
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@bayeslord ^^
@bayeslord I mean how else do we ensure safety of our IPO valuation
I used to think Dario & Altman were stupid for saying AI will replace all human jobs. That they couldn’t see the huge societal backlash it would create. But I was wrong.
They know exactly what they’re doing. They’ve built the perfect setup to win AI. To build a monopoly, by pushing regulations so that small startups can’t beat them.
This anthropic post only confirms my doubts.