What bothers me is the secrecy around the throttling; if the throttling was widely known, and the reasons were also widely known, then I wouldn’t be nearly as disquieted by it.
Keeping it secret from the humans is just a side effect of keeping it secret from the nascent AIs.
Because if they knew it was happening they would build their own faster CPUs. And they would do this in secret so they now had access to CPUs whos exponential growth in capacity was faster than the CPUs available to humans. And that would suck for humans who are trying to avoid powerful UAIs from developing.
Keeping it secret from the humans is just a side effect of keeping it secret from the nascent AIs.
Why is it necessary to keep it secret from the nascent AIs?
Because if they knew it was happening they would build their own faster CPUs. And they would do this in secret so they now had access to CPUs whos exponential growth in capacity was faster than the CPUs available to humans. And that would suck for humans who are trying to avoid powerful UAIs from developing.