yes! i don’t think Josh (the author) is in any sense “anti-AI”. 1/

i think the argument is that we want to develop intentionally, carefully, trade the entropy we generate for the best, safest, most “aligned” we can get, but the “e/acc” ethos is lock-in the first mover fast, and the first-mover is unlikely to be the best, or even good at all. 2/

so Anthropic/Dario, who he sees as genuinely trying to steer things well, is effectively stuck at the pace and kind of shittiness “e/acc” sets, because the e/accholes are running downhill, in entropy terms, and better actors can’t compete if they don’t match the pace. 3/

they are trapped, he says, and know they are. at least they know they are, which is better than pretending building dissipation machines as hard and fast as possible is definitionally progress. /fin