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motoboi | on: DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]
There is an immense pot of gold at the end of this rainbow and if the theories about ASI are in the general correct direction, only one winner will get it.

It makes no difference if the pot do actually exist, because the prospect of it being real make not getting it the end of your company.

rayiner | parent | next
Why? If you can reach ASI without ASI, then why can’t multiple companies reach ASI on parallel tracks?
Levitz | root | parent
Because the hegemony-ensuring machine will most certainly have "prevent others from competing for hegemony" as one of the basic tenets.
8organicbits | parent
I think that statement is vacuous true for all magical thinking.