"Pace the frontier" gets the meme treatment: China won't slow down
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-13
The AI circuit's new meme: Dario says "pace the frontier," Elon posts "Dario is right," Sam agrees—and the punchline is China's imagined reply, "you want to slow down? that's cute." It neatly captures why lab-side pacing pledges sit awkwardly against geopolitical competition where no rival has an incentive to slow.
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