Skeptic: Frontier Labs' Pacing Talk Is Appeasement of Internal Safetyist Factions
aidan_mclau · x · 2026-09-13
Reacting to Dario Amodei's essay calling on the AI industry to slow down, a commenter argues that frontier lab leaders talking about pacing feels less like strategy and more like appeasement of their internal safetyist and Yudkowskian factions. The author of the original post dismisses it with a short "nah" — a snapshot of the ongoing debate over whether pacing appeals are sincere or performative.
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