Skeptic: 'Pacing the frontier' may be a nicer investor story than admitting compute is running out
flavioAd · x · 2026-09-14
An X user offers a self-described "conspiracy theory": "we should pace the frontier" is a much better narrative for investors than admitting "we're running out of compute and can't scale as fast as we want" — implying responsible-slowdown talk may be covering a scaling bottleneck. Speculative, with no evidence provided.
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