Rather than make things worse as a means of compelling others to make things better, I would rather just make things better. Brinksmanship and accelerationism (in the Marxist sense) are high variance strategies ill-suited to the stakes of this particular game. [one way this makes things worse is stimulating additional investment on the frontier; another is attracting public attention to the wrong problem, which will mostly just generate action on solutions to that problem, and not to the problem we care most about. Importantly, the contingent of people-mostly-worried-about-jobs are not yet our allies, and it’s likely their regulatory priorities would not address our concerns, even though I share in some of those concerns.]

Might Leopold Aschenbrenner also be involved? He runs an investment fund with money from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Patrick Collison, so the investment in Mechanize might have come from that? https://situationalawarenesslp.com/ https://www.forourposterity.com/