Yudkowsky’s worldview in favour of closed source ASI is sitting in multiple shaky assumptions. One of these assumptions is that getting a 3-month to 3-year lead is necessary and sufficient condition for alignment to be solved. Yudkowsky!2025 himself doesn’t believe alignment can be solved in 3 years.
Why does anybody on lesswrong want closed source ASI?
Ban on ASI > Open source ASI > Closed source ASI
This is my ordering.
Yudkowsky’s worldview in favour of closed source ASI is sitting in multiple shaky assumptions. One of these assumptions is that getting a 3-month to 3-year lead is necessary and sufficient condition for alignment to be solved. Yudkowsky!2025 himself doesn’t believe alignment can be solved in 3 years.
Why does anybody on lesswrong want closed source ASI?