One example: Leopold spends a lot of time talking about how we need to beat China to AGI and even talks about how we will need to build robo armies. He paints it as liberal democracy against the CCP. Seems that he would basically burn timeline and accelerate to beat China. At the same time, he doesn’t really talk about his plan for alignment which kind of shows his priorities. I think his narrative shifts the focus from the real problem (alignment).
This part shows some of his thinking. Dwarkesh makes some good counter points here, like how is Donald Trump having this power better than Xi.
One example: Leopold spends a lot of time talking about how we need to beat China to AGI and even talks about how we will need to build robo armies. He paints it as liberal democracy against the CCP. Seems that he would basically burn timeline and accelerate to beat China. At the same time, he doesn’t really talk about his plan for alignment which kind of shows his priorities. I think his narrative shifts the focus from the real problem (alignment).
This part shows some of his thinking. Dwarkesh makes some good counter points here, like how is Donald Trump having this power better than Xi.