The load-bearing argument: any AI slowdown is capped exactly by the US lead
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-13
basedjensen quotes and highlights the key sentence of an AI governance essay: pacing within democracies 'will be limited by the lead that US companies have over authoritarian regimes.' The implication: the available slowdown equals the size of the gap—nine months of lead buys nine months of pause. The thread argues this makes the proposed plan bounded by the lead and thus not really a plan. The author notes they used Fable to fix their grammar due to dyslexia.
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