The one crazy company gets into so much trouble with a government that everyone else just kind of takes a pause and waits to see how it turns out...but the paperwork never ends and the energy/material resources that were available for advancing that tech are reallocated.
There, we are probably in a pause, do something useful with it please.
I wrote this nine years ago, maybe it was Anthropic’s approach all along: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fTrEqNnYYSNXNSRcg/allegory-on-ai-risk-game-theory-and-mithril#8kyxf3bAmQBHrstm2
The one crazy company gets into so much trouble with a government that everyone else just kind of takes a pause and waits to see how it turns out...but the paperwork never ends and the energy/material resources that were available for advancing that tech are reallocated.
There, we are probably in a pause, do something useful with it please.