[radicalace]

name a single reason why a pause is not an option. dont say why it would be hard or unlikely or inconvenient or whatever, to exclude it as a possibility means it has to be physically impossible.

of course it isnt physically impossible. AI requires large compute, large resources. you cant advance the state of the art inconspicuously. the only reason you say it isnt an option is because you dont consider AI an existential threat, really, and therefore extreme measures arent justified. but they actually are.

[hashstring]

We are already facing numerous existential threats at the moment, even ones that are deliberately made to be an existential threat, take nuclear weapons.

“Hey fellow nation states, let’s not create nuclear bombs, but let’s pause developments and keep the current power dynamics fixed please” is completely unrealistic. Mind that creating nuclear weapons actually requires technical operations that are factors more complex than “large compute” in many aspects… like… enriching uranium and working with supercritical masses.

> you cant advance the state of the art inconspicuously.

What evidence has led you to believe this?

[nradov]

That's not even a valid request. There is obviously no valid reason to require such a pause in the first place. You've been watching too many scifi movies and don't understand the technology.