[TheOtherHobbes]

Did you actually read the text? OPs are calling that Plan D.

They're proposing an alternative, which is a global brake on frontier AI research to keep the basilisk in its jar until we work out what we're dealing with and how to handle it.

[layla5alive]

No, they're proposing a spying panopticon and state control of global resource distribution - specifically general purpose compute - including seizing and destroying GPUs. They're proposing a totalitarian global dictatorship controlling computing hardware and software.

Lest you think I'm being hyperbolic: https://ai-2040.com/supplements/covert-ai-projects

This is arsonists selling fire insurance.

[esafak]

A nasty global inspections regime just like we have for nuclear weapons, which are less dangerous than this. Oh no ...

[layla5alive]

Nuclear weapons are less dangerous than compute? Are you listening to yourself?

Humans employing this kind of thinking and desire to control other people is the genuine danger here.