Frontier lab slowdown talk looks like appeasing internal safetyist factions
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-13
The author argues that frontier lab leaders talking about slowing down feels less like strategy and more like appeasement of their internal safetyist and Yudkowskian factions — a take in the ongoing safety-vs-acceleration debate.
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