Sane pausing similarly must be temporary, gated by theory and the experiments it endorses. Pausing is easier to pull off than persistently-tool AI, since it’s further from dangerous capabilities, so it’s not nearly as ambiguous when you take steps outside the current regime (such as gradual disempowerment). RSPs for example are the strategy of being extremely precise so that you stop just before the risk of falling off the cliff becomes catastrophic, and not a second earlier.
Sane pausing similarly must be temporary, gated by theory and the experiments it endorses. Pausing is easier to pull off than persistently-tool AI, since it’s further from dangerous capabilities, so it’s not nearly as ambiguous when you take steps outside the current regime (such as gradual disempowerment). RSPs for example are the strategy of being extremely precise so that you stop just before the risk of falling off the cliff becomes catastrophic, and not a second earlier.
Agree that pauses are a clearer line. But even if a pause and tool-limit are both temporary, we should expect the full pause to have to last longer.