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I'm skeptical. The phrase "pacing the frontier" implies disproportionate regulation of firms at the frontier, which if anything would give smaller players time to catch up.


Opposite actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674548

tl;dr

A slowdown that doesn't slow you, that your competitors must also obey, enforced by a government you've asked for an antitrust exemption from, is not a slowdown... it's a moat.


>A slowdown that doesn't slow you, that your competitors must also obey, enforced by a government you've asked for an antitrust exemption from, is not a slowdown... it's a moat.

Why do you believe this is what Amodei is calling for? Why would this be a slowdown that "doesn't slow" Anthropic?


They are already ahead. If everyone slows down equally, they retain their lead.




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