Hypothetically, would you rather have:

1. AI is not delayed, but the strongest AI, 10 years ahead of everyone else, is in the hands of a single very powerful corporation
2. All AI delayed by 10 years

Depends on the company. OpenAI? 1, send it. That Uighur face-scanning one? 2

Whitepill on 1 is that good ideas spread and invention & creative destruction are relentless. 10 years ago it might've looked like Intel had an insurmountable lead and look at them now.

Real World Ethereum 🌎 
building /daimo ✳️ 

agreed in principle - only valid counter argument is of course that AI might have a unique runaway intelligence aspect to it, where the "first past the post" basically is able to outcompete all of combined human civilization.
I have to admit I am having a hard time figuring out how to think about whether that's true.

are not OpenAI and World coin both the same ppl basically?