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Ask HN: What would "slowing down" AI look like?

1 points by AbstractH24 ↗ HN
What would the second degree effects be?

Are token prices about to skyrocket? Do the IPOs not happen? Does the bubble burst and everything dependent on this continuous growth stop?

Or does everyone who got laid off magically get their jobs back and the world goes back to rainbows and butterflies?

Or do data centers get built then we resume?

I find hard to envision how this even works.

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techblueberry
My read of Dario’s post was very much like, slow down from 90% throttle to 75-85%, not 25-50%. I don’t think it looks like that much from the outside. A direct quote:

“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain.”

He’s basically just saying, I dunno, spend 20% of every sprint building defensive capabilities.