Debate: GPT-2 was the last chance to delay the trillion-dollar cluster race
abhiadesai · x · 2026-10-28
@tszzl calls OpenAI's decision not to release GPT-2-XL 'safetyist slop,' noting the model was never truly dangerous—the cited threats were just spam. @abhiadesai steel-mans the other side: even as a non-safetyist, he argues GPT-2 was probably the last chance to push this decade's acceleration further out—by ChatGPT's launch, the path to trillion-dollar clusters was already visible and likely inevitable.
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