One more virtue-turned-vice for my original comment: pacifism and disarmament: the world would be a more dangerous place if more countries had more nukes etc., and we might well have had a global nuclear war by now. But also, more war means more institutional turnover, and the destruction and reestablishment of institutions is about the only mechanism of institutional reform which actually works. Furthermore, if any country could threaten war or MAD against AI development, that might be one of the few things that could possibly actually enforce an AI Stop.
One more virtue-turned-vice for my original comment: pacifism and disarmament: the world would be a more dangerous place if more countries had more nukes etc., and we might well have had a global nuclear war by now. But also, more war means more institutional turnover, and the destruction and reestablishment of institutions is about the only mechanism of institutional reform which actually works. Furthermore, if any country could threaten war or MAD against AI development, that might be one of the few things that could possibly actually enforce an AI Stop.