alt Hacker News> To be clear about where we stand: we believe the world would benefit if the industry adopted a lawful, verifiable, effective mechanism for coordinated pacing as soon as possible.
Can someone explain what coordinated pacing is? I think it's referring to model release but I genuinely have no idea what the authors were trying to say here.
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I think it's not just model releases but also model training.
For example, [1] discusses allowing all frontier labs to pause training the next generation model while being able to verify that their competitors have done the same, or agreeing to not undertake recursive self-improvement. This could involve using the remote attestation features [2] that some chips already bake in to determine whether they are being used for inference or training.
[1]: https://blog.peterwildeford.com/p/pacing-the-frontier
[2]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/solutions/confident...
I believe it is referring to https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/.
> Can someone explain what coordinated pacing is?
A fancy term for regulatory capture. You're not in the coordinated pacing cartel? Sorry bub, your model is illegal.
They don't want any of their competitors to be able to leap ahead. Good luck getting the Chinese to agree.
> Can someone explain what coordinated pacing is?
My charitable read is a legal cartel that allows the small club to switch to Marathon instead of Sprint mode, and drip feed us frontier models at inflated prices, while preventing open source and overseas labs from releasing models because they're unsafe (for the Blessèd Fews' profits).
My uncharitable read is somehow even less constructive..