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But you also have to remember that the pursuit of AGI is a vital story behind things like fundraising, hiring, influencing politicians, being able to leave and raise large amounts of money for your next endeavor, etc.

If you've been working on AI, you've seen everything go up and to the right for a while - who really benefits from pointing out that a slowdown is occurring? Who is incentivized to talk about how the benefits from scaling are slowing down or the publicly available internet-scale corpuses are running out? Not anyone who trains models and needs compute, I can tell you that much. And not anyone who has a financial interest in these companies either.