it seems plausible to me that if pivotal acts became the main paradigm, then we’d have a world in which a majority of relevant people are willing to cooperate / do not want to race that much against others in the majority, and it’d mostly be a race between this group and e/acc types
I disagree, I think in many ways the current race already seems motivated by something of the sort—“if I don’t get to it first, they will, and they’re sure to fuck it up”. Though with no apparent planning for pivotal acts in sight (but who knows).
I would also add, though, that the kinds of governance solutions/mechanisms I can think of that are sufficient to (for instance) make it impossible to perform distributed training runs on consumer devices also seem quite authoritarian.
Oh, agreed. It’s a choice between shitty options all around.
I disagree, I think in many ways the current race already seems motivated by something of the sort—“if I don’t get to it first, they will, and they’re sure to fuck it up”. Though with no apparent planning for pivotal acts in sight (but who knows).
Oh, agreed. It’s a choice between shitty options all around.