AI decels challenged: what exactly would you stop — models, fabs, capital, or curiosity itself?
nptacek · x · 2026-10-07
A viral rebuttal to AI "decels" asks what a stop would even entail: the models? fabs? capital? China? the Pentagon? open source? mathematics? curiosity? competition? The author argues that every sufficiently capable system tends to search for a more capable version of itself, implying frontier progress can't realistically be halted.
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