Nicholas Andresen

And we can start arguing about what standards should look like.

I don't want to oversell this.

One paper doesn't solve the coordination problem.

Fairly monitorable is not safe.

The timeline is brutal and new release looms.

But it's more than we had last month.

And more than we had last month is the only direction progress has ever come from.

King Alfred lived in a world full of things he couldn't understand.

Plagues came from nowhere, killed half the village, and vanished.

Crops failed for reasons no one could articulate.

Vikings appeared over the horizon without warning, burned everything, and left.

The world was full of forces, capricious, powerful, utterly opaque.

All you could do was pray and hope that the things controlling your fate were benevolent.

Or at least not actively malicious.

We spent a thousand years crawling out of that darkness.

Slowly, painfully, one hard one insight at a time, we made those forces legible.

We figured out where plagues came from.

We learned why crops fail.

We developed radar and satellites and early warning systems.

We took a universe of mysterious forces and turned it, piece by piece, into something we could understand and predict and work with.