My guess is that this is reasonably plausible assuming the short timelines are in fact going to happen, but it’s going to be up against a backdrop of a shock to government competence such that the people who could do a national project completely fail to even get started, let alone complete a herculean effort, since all the possible choices for the role are selected based on loyalty, not competence.
I expect the new administration to break the presidential government and agencies competence by extreme amounts, such that I wouldn’t be totally surprised if by the end of the administration, there would be a complete inability to have a national AI project/nationalize the business at all.
Keep in mind the current administration is replacing incompetent bureaucracies with self assembling corporations. The organization is still there, just more competent and under a different name. A government project could just look like telling the labs to create 1 data center, throwing money at them, and cutting red tape for building gas plants.
My guess is that this is reasonably plausible assuming the short timelines are in fact going to happen, but it’s going to be up against a backdrop of a shock to government competence such that the people who could do a national project completely fail to even get started, let alone complete a herculean effort, since all the possible choices for the role are selected based on loyalty, not competence.
I expect the new administration to break the presidential government and agencies competence by extreme amounts, such that I wouldn’t be totally surprised if by the end of the administration, there would be a complete inability to have a national AI project/nationalize the business at all.
Keep in mind the current administration is replacing incompetent bureaucracies with self assembling corporations. The organization is still there, just more competent and under a different name. A government project could just look like telling the labs to create 1 data center, throwing money at them, and cutting red tape for building gas plants.