if you’re an ai safety person who wants major federal action now, you should want for anthropic to lead in advancing the frontier into dangerous capabilities, because the Trump Admin will now be primed to see whatever anthropic does as “bad” and what other labs do as “good.” If anthropic hits an RSI loop first, it’s much likelier to be viewed by the admin as “weird” and “scary,” whereas if anyone else does it, it will be “normal” and “innovative.”
A thousand years from now, if we make it, this era will look insane. “They had a fusion reactor in the sky delivering 174,000 TW for free and they fought wars over dead dinosaur juice buried underground because someone drew lines on a map and said mine.”
we can’t even figure out how to capture half a percent of the energy that’s already landing on us for free, every day, without us doing anything. We don’t need to go to the moon. We don’t need a Dyson sphere. We just need to put panels on the ground we’re already standing on.