https://twitter.com/WSJTech/status/1755774564896756101

This feels very counterproductive?

Like, from an "AI safety" perspective, scaling current techniques to even bigger compute -> earlier superintelligence -> more risk.

And from an "AI openness" perspective, it increases the divide between megacorps and plebs.

honest question, what’s the alternative path?

radical

<radical>

Globally abolish patent laws and nullify NDAs for anything computer-hardware related. Would reduce incentive to make the next version in the short-term, and at the same time make that whole industry less fragile.

</radical>

(less radical: just don't do the $7T computer hardware thing)

Radical indeed, but there's a certain appeal to shaking up the status quo. It could be the 'open source' revolution that hardware desperately needs.

editor at yfarmx.com 📚 /yfarmx // security researcher

oh yeah I think if I had access to a button to make it happen but only for the next five seconds I would totally press it

It's just not the kind of thing that the world realistically outputs.

Vitalik what are your thoughts on this new optimism project called MODE?