Are there any memes prevalent in the US government that make racing to AGI with China look obviously foolish?
The “let’s race to AGI with China” meme landed for a reason. Is there something making the US gov susceptible to some sort of counter-meme, like the one expressed in this comment by Gwern?
The no interest in an AI arms race is now looking false, as apparently China as a state has devoted $137 billion to AI, which is at least a yellow flag that they are interested in racing.
I’d vainly hope that everyone would know about the zero-sum nature of racing to the apocalypse from nuclear weapons, but the parallel isn’t great, and no-one seems to have learned the lesson anyways, given the failure of holding SALT III or even doing START II.
Are there any memes prevalent in the US government that make racing to AGI with China look obviously foolish?
The “let’s race to AGI with China” meme landed for a reason. Is there something making the US gov susceptible to some sort of counter-meme, like the one expressed in this comment by Gwern?
The no interest in an AI arms race is now looking false, as apparently China as a state has devoted $137 billion to AI, which is at least a yellow flag that they are interested in racing.
Source? I only found this article about 1 trillion Yuan, which is $137 billion.
Yeah, that was what I was referring to, and I thought it would actually be a trillion dollars, sorry for the numbers being wrong.
I’d vainly hope that everyone would know about the zero-sum nature of racing to the apocalypse from nuclear weapons, but the parallel isn’t great, and no-one seems to have learned the lesson anyways, given the failure of holding SALT III or even doing START II.