Otherwise you have a constant large compute overhang.
I think we should strongly consider finding a way of dealing with that rather than only looking at solutions that produce no overhang. For all we know, total compute required for TAI (especially factoring in future algorithmic progress) isn’t far away from where we are now. Dealing with the problem of preventing defectors from exploiting a compute overhang seems potentially easier than solving alignment on a very short timescale.
I think we should strongly consider finding a way of dealing with that rather than only looking at solutions that produce no overhang. For all we know, total compute required for TAI (especially factoring in future algorithmic progress) isn’t far away from where we are now. Dealing with the problem of preventing defectors from exploiting a compute overhang seems potentially easier than solving alignment on a very short timescale.