This is a very good, and very scary point—another thing that could provide, at least the appearance of, a discontinuity. One symptom of this this scenario would be a widespread, false belief that “open source” models are SOTA.
Might be good to brainstorm other symptoms to prime ourselves to recognize when we are in this scenario. Complete hiring-freezes/massive layoffs at the firms in question, aggressive expansion into previously-unrelated markets, etc.
This is a very good, and very scary point—another thing that could provide, at least the appearance of, a discontinuity. One symptom of this this scenario would be a widespread, false belief that “open source” models are SOTA.
Might be good to brainstorm other symptoms to prime ourselves to recognize when we are in this scenario. Complete hiring-freezes/massive layoffs at the firms in question, aggressive expansion into previously-unrelated markets, etc.