Comment by upwardbound

For those interested, another proposed name being thrown around for the Brockism idea is Overhang Reductionism, since it's safer to name the idea independent of any one person so far since there is not yet proof that Brockman himself endorses a chip slowdown beyond what we can infer from this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38323939

    "Alongside rifts over strategy, board members also contended with Altman’s entrepreneurial ambitions. Altman has been looking to raise tens of billions of dollars from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to create an AI chip startup to compete with processors made by Nvidia Corp."

That is based only on what Altman himself says, I don't think that is sufficient for optimism.