Honest question, but in your example above of Sam and Greg racing towards AGI as fast as possible in order to head off proliferation, what's the end goal when getting there? Short of capture the entire worlds economy with an ASI, thus preventing anyone else from developing one, I don't see how this works. Just because OpenAI (or whoever) wins the initial race, it doesn't seem obvious to me that all development on other AGIs stops.
>>gorbyp+(OP)
part of the fanaticism here is that the first one to get an AGI wins because they can use its powerful intelligence to overcome every competitor and shut them down. they’re living in their own sci fi novel