Comment by estearum
19 hours ago
The entire problem with arms races is that any individual entity cannot avoid participating.
sama and his cadre are uniquely evil captains in this race, but they're completely replaceable and the dynamic would remain the same.
They could work to coordinate an end to the arms race.
Uhhh... the mechanism by which they'd do that is via government regulation. Most of the frontier labs have been openly requesting regulation: "the structure of this competition is not suitable for the development of this particular technology"
The reactions vary from:
1. China will do it anyway (need some supranational governance scheme)
2. This is just an attempt at regulatory capture
3. This is just marketing
4. Regulation is bad mmmmkay