Researcher: Dario's China framing in pacing essay may have backfired badly
StephenLCasper · x · 2026-09-16
Stephen Casper critiques Dario Amodei's essay on pacing the frontier, which framed beating China as a key national objective. Casper argues that either Dario disingenuously stoked an arms race and doomed coordinated pacing agreements — in which case he succeeded — or, if sincere, it was 'one of the worst possible moves imaginable.'
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