Commenter: 'Pacing the frontier' may be a better investor story than running out of compute
flavioAd · x · 2026-09-14
flavioAd floats a 'conspiracy theory': "we should pace the frontier" is a much better pitch to investors than admitting "we're running out of compute and can't scale as fast as we want" — possibly the same reality with different framing. The author later adds it's just a funny thought, with no evidence offered.
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