The “pay to not race to AGI” would only make sense if there were a smallish pool of replacements ready to step in and work on racing to AGI. This doesn’t seem to be the case. The difference it’d make might not be zero, but close enough to be obviously inefficient.
In particular, there are presumably effective ways to use money to create a greater number of aligned AIS researchers—it’s just that [give people a lot of money to work on it] probably isn’t one of them.
The “pay to not race to AGI” would only make sense if there were a smallish pool of replacements ready to step in and work on racing to AGI. This doesn’t seem to be the case. The difference it’d make might not be zero, but close enough to be obviously inefficient.
In particular, there are presumably effective ways to use money to create a greater number of aligned AIS researchers—it’s just that [give people a lot of money to work on it] probably isn’t one of them.