Jamie Metzl

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And then people who don't have that kind of attention span, our attentions are being hacked.

We need to protect ourselves.

So I am an accelerationist.

I'm not against being an acceleration.

But the question is, what is the unit at which we are competing?

If it's only at the model level, then I think that's really dangerous.

If you have a sports car in your garage and you go out on the street and your foot is on the gas the entire time, it's going to feel great.

You're going to be the fastest car on the street for a little while, and then you're going to crash.

And so the competition...

can't just happen at the model level.

It has to happen at the societal level.

And so who can have the best models in the context of all of these other things that enable success?

And whether it is integration into government services or even the military, whether it's making sure that your society doesn't totally break down because of these new capabilities or

All of your businesses don't go out of business because everybody gets hacked on the same day.

It's not acceleration versus safety.

We need to go as fast as we possibly can that makes sense.

But if all we say is our sole strategy is our foot on the gas, we're going to crash the car.

And so the competition happens on the societal level, not at the model level.

If China wins in a significant, meaningful way, meaning that they have systems that are so much better than ours, that they can neutralize ours, that they become the standard for the rest of the world, their military becomes very quickly more capable than ours.