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titanomachyyesterday at 12:20 AM2 repliesview on HN

> open models are inherently decelerationist

I’m struggling to understand this perspective. Is he using the words accelerationist/decelerationist in a sense other than the obvious one?

EDIT: I searched his twitter history and discovered that his argument is basically “if you drive down costs, then OpenAI will have less money to invest in development, slowing down the overall rate of AI progress.” IMO this take betrays an overwhelmingly stupid degree of exceptionalism, but I guess that’s what I’d expect from someone working at OpenAI.


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aesthesiayesterday at 2:42 AM

Nah, the point is that if models are commoditized and there's no hope of making significant profits, no one is going to be willing to make the massive investments necessary to continue pushing the scale frontier. How large a training run do you expect investors to fund out of the goodness of their hearts?

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eeieiyesterday at 2:33 AM

What a delusional f-wit lol he wants protection of profits for reinvestment?

Every company wants that!