This is a narrative framing from the tech companies who started and continue the AI race. The current administration is following this framing because the tech billionaires helped them get elected, so they are getting their pay back. It's crony capitalism.

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bpodgursky 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I do not work at an AI company. If you gave me a magic button, I would press it to halt all frontier AI development globally.

But, I do not have that button, and I believe the thesis that for the US to thrive, or even survive, we have to win at AI. So, until we get a multinational pact to pause AI (which I would support), it needs to be all gas, all the time.

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SiempreViernes 12 hours ago | parent [-]

> So, until we get a multinational pact to pause AI (which I would support), it needs to be all gas, all the time.

In other words "If others give me exactly what I want, without me making any effort for it, I will stop doing this thing I regret having to do". Someone might object that it's possible, achievable, and useful to produce partial success on the road to a comprehensive solution. Still others think it's best to not have a ceasefire while you negotiate the peace.

	▲	bpodgursky 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Do you think the US could have negotiated the New START treaty to get Russia to reduce their nuclear arms stockpile, if the US did not have parity in nukes? Unilateral ceasefires while your opponents are at full throttle are the dumbest imaginable response.