It's actually a little funny that this whole thing is predicated on "beating" the Chinese, when (as they have been for the past 4 decades, and the Japanese before them) they're perfectly happy to let us do the bulk of the work and then swoop in with a svelte, cheap, user-friendly version right after. One part Apple, one part Dollar Store.
Is the thinking that the day or so between US systems achieving ASI and Chinese systems doing the same, we'll figure out a way to neutralize them indefinitely? Because otherwise, none of this makes much sense. And it only starts to swerve back to sanity if the assumption is that this isn't a race or competition, but instead a joint effort to achieve something good for humanity. But you can't really delta profit off that, can you?
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Is the thinking that the day or so between US systems achieving ASI and Chinese systems doing the same, we'll figure out a way to neutralize them indefinitely? Because otherwise, none of this makes much sense. And it only starts to swerve back to sanity if the assumption is that this isn't a race or competition, but instead a joint effort to achieve something good for humanity. But you can't really delta profit off that, can you?