Also, we're getting dozens of foundation models a month right now. There are paths that lead from that world to one where we're darning our used clothing, saving bacon drippings, and only training one model every other year. But those paths involve thermonuclear war or smallpox. +
I mean you should save your bacon drippings anyway, that's some of the best cooking lipid available
You could reduce investment in this industry by two orders of magnitude — assassinate 200 leading researchers to prevent any further technical advances — and we would really *still* be quite capable of updating models to reflect new languages and recent events.
I firmly believe "brilliant researcher" is more a social niche than some sort of phenotype
Yes, very fair. Other people would just have to be prom- ... and on second thought I favor those assassinations.
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