> Sean Goedecke has some good insights into where this "build faster to stop other models killing everyone" attitude comes from:

I'm familiar with the existential risk thinking.

The the flaw in that idea that they can avert disaster by building faster is they're likely just racing faster towards more plausible non-extinction disasters. Stuff like Capitalism x AGI totally crushing the economic prospects of nearly all people, AGI-powered totalitarianism, etc.