Accelerationist decision tree: danger is close, a decisive AI lead is achievable — Plan A
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-23
A compressed argument in the AI-race debate: the author reduces frontier competition to a simple decision tree — is danger close? Is a decisive lead achievable? He answers yes to both, citing the line that "a decisive advantage can be demonstrated but its impossibility never proven."
The conclusion is Plan A: keep accelerating, with public pushback absorbed as the fluffer. It's a representative snapshot of pro-acceleration reasoning about racing to decisive advantage.
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