AGI Winner-Take-All Isn't Inevitable, Why Should We Support the Race?
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-13
- teortaxesTex pushes back against @puhcko's claim that whoever controls the first "nation of geniuses" (AGI) wins global domination forever, and that China only open-sources models to undermine the US and will stop once it no longer needs to.
- He argues the belief that AGI is winner-take-all mirrors how Nazis convinced themselves Darwinian competition was the law of history and a moral ideal, then acted on it — believing it could make it true, but it is not inevitable.
- He asks: what reason do I have to support such attempts?
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