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

2. AI 10 years ahead of all others is presumably much more powerful. Isn’t Crypto in large part about decentralising power? 

I’m surprised so many people chose 1 given the nature of FC and it’s user base. I wonder how the answers would change if you swapped “powerful corporation” for “US Government”.

Horticulturalist. Environmental hand wringer. Open source enthusiast.  

Me too. 2. 

Preference for 1 here shows the dominance of techno-optimism and accelerationism on FC. 

Look, we need FC because a single corporation built “the strongest” social graph ahead of everyone else.