[ifwinterco]

The whole "safety" debate was always nonsense and I'm not sure how so many people got caught up in it.

The US is not the only country in the world so the idea that humanity as a whole could somehow regulate this process seemed silly to me.

Even if you got the whole US tech community and the US government on board, there are 6.7bn other people in the world working in unrelated systems, enough of whom are very smart

[zaphirplane]

When the leading 5 models are from the US then yes enforced safety makes a difference because they are ahead of the curve. Now when the 10th model can be a danger then your case is true.

What would safety applied to the leading 3 mean to you anyways ?

[ifwinterco]

Even if US labs are currently in the lead (which they are), in the hypothetical scenario where we're close to AGI, it wouldn't take too long (years - decades at most) for other people to catch up, especially given a lot of the researchers etc. are not originally from the US.

So the stated concern of the west coast tech bros that we're close to some misaligned AGI apocalypse would be slightly delayed, but in the grand scheme of things it would make no difference