Pacing the frontier

17 points | by reducesuffering an hour ago

6 comments

  • tcdent 10 minutes ago

    Something people don't seem to see, and not that it's placed directly in front of you, is that pacing the release and adoption of AI is already happening.

    Cost-per-token determines the economic viability of tasks that AI gets applied to. How many tokens would it take to automate all of the responsibilities of a gas station clerk? Probably more than their hourly wage. Job safe.

    A slightly larger stretch, that most people attribute to profit margins (labs do not have profit margins, they have unlimited invested capital and no expectation of short-term returns), is the flat-rate billing plans of most code products. Why doesn't Anthropic have a 50x or 100x Max plan? Not that it's impossible, that it releases tokens into the workforce at a greater rate (note that their are hour, day, week limits across most of these services as well).

    Hypothetical, but reasoned, and I do not expect most agree with me. If compute as a variable is inferred, this supports the incorporation a deliberate (redundant) one as well.

  • fuddle 15 minutes ago

    > We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

    This is quite vague to me, what exactly do you mean?

      zzleeper 10 minutes ago

      It means only those vetted will be allowed to use frontier models (i.e. let's pace ourselves and not share the frontier broadly)

  • dominotw 18 minutes ago

    > > We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

    > 1122 employees of frontier AI companies

    'lets us be the gatekeepers of AI because we know better than you'

    access to gpu doesnt equal to any special insights to predict future of ai. Everyone and their grandma with enough compute is putting out a model now.

  • joshuaS98 10 minutes ago

    What a delusion

  • serious_angel 13 minutes ago

    The website does not list all the comments but just around ~50 without any way to load all the ~+1100 more (1132, as of 2026-07-28 2100 UTC).

    The number of em-dashes is questionable, existing in many, if not all, the comments.

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    And, this is not serious at this point:

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