Reddit essay 'Dario, please!' takes apart Amodei's slow-down argument
GoMeansGo · reddit · 2026-09-20
A Reddit-shared critique titled 'Dario, please!' dissects Dario Amodei's essay calling to slow down AI development. The author argues the piece is internally inconsistent: Amodei warns of superintelligence risks while Anthropic keeps racing on frontier models, and his slow-down appeal offers no concrete enforcement mechanism, functioning more as narrative-building than a real safety commitment. The post reflects the ongoing clash between safety-adjacent rhetoric and accelerationist practice.
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