ASI might provide a strategic advantage of a kind which doesn’t negatively impact the losers of the race, e.g. it increases GDP by x10 and locks competitors out of having an ASI.
It does negatively impact the losers, to the extent that they’re interested not only in absolute wealth but also relative wealth (which I expect to be the case, although I know ~nothing about SotA modeling of states as rational actors or whatever).
It does negatively impact the losers, to the extent that they’re interested not only in absolute wealth but also relative wealth (which I expect to be the case, although I know ~nothing about SotA modeling of states as rational actors or whatever).