"No dibs": researcher pushes back on scoop etiquette outrage in high-stakes AI race
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-09
Commenting on an ongoing AI-community spat over "scoop" etiquette, the author pushes back against moralizing language like "maximally icky": this is competition at the highest stakes, not "flipping a fair coin and calling it in the air." Invoking Fodor's "there are no dibs," he notes his original draft was far harsher and this was his most restrained possible reply.
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