teortaxesTex's stark logic for the AI race: decisive advantage provable, its impossibility never
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-23
AI commentator teortaxesTex lays out a starkly simplified decision tree for the frontier AI race: if danger is close and a decisive lead is achievable — "a decisive advantage can be demonstrated but its impossibility never proven" — then Plan A (acceleration) follows. A viewpoint post arguing the accelerationist position is internally consistent when safety supremacy can't be disproven.
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