METR is the EA doomer AI safety NGO that Dario wants to install as political commissars with employee-level access in every frontier lab. So let’s meet them: 🧵
@Polymarket AI can still be stopped as it depends upon a handful of physical chokepoints: EUV lithography, advanced fabs, memory, accelerators and power. But these constraints are temporary and when they are overcome, the opportunity to stop it will have passed.
@zhusu AI can still be stopped as it depends upon a handful of physical chokepoints: EUV lithography, advanced fabs, memory, accelerators and power. But these constraints are temporary and when they are overcome, the opportunity to stop it will have passed.
@notthreadguy AI can still be stopped as it depends upon a handful of physical chokepoints: EUV lithography, advanced fabs, memory, accelerators and power. But these constraints are temporary and when they are overcome, the opportunity to stop it will have passed.
@waitbutwhy AI can still be stopped as it depends upon a handful of physical chokepoints: EUV lithography, advanced fabs, memory, accelerators and power. But these constraints are temporary and when they are overcome, the opportunity to stop it will have passed.
I can't predict the AI future, and I'm very unsure about what the right strategy or policies should be moving forward. What I do know is that people who scoff at the idea that we may be in grave danger have not read enough about AI.