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TRX Vitalik Buterin backs anti-data-center movement, argues compute slowdown is net good
Vitalik Buterin said he disagrees with the strong emotional reaction against anti-data-center movements, arguing that algorithmic progress means extreme success by those movements would not cause apocalyptically bad outcomes. He said slowing compute hyper-scaling seems net good, citing time needed to harden the world against cybersecurity and bio risks and noting science applications are bottlenecked by factors other than AI.
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Buterin disagrees with the strong emotional reaction against anti-data-center movements.
“I don't agree with the strong emotional reaction against the anti-data-center movements”
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Buterin argues algorithmic progress means capabilities from bigger data centers in two years will be achievable with today's data centers in four years, probably sooner.
“whatever you would be able to do with more and bigger data centers in 2 years, you will be able to do with the data centers we have today in 4 years”
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Buterin says nothing remotely apocalyptically bad will happen from even extreme success by anti-data-center people.
“nothing remotely apocalyptically bad will happen from even extreme levels of success by anti-data-center people”
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Buterin says time is needed to harden the world against cybersecurity and bio risks.
“we need all the time we can get to better harden the world against both already-visible cybersecurity issues and any bio and other risks soon to come”
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Buterin says science applications are bottlenecked by many things other than AI, so slowing AI by a year slows those down by much less than a year.
“Science applications are bottlenecked by many things other than AI, so slowing AI down by one year will slow those down by much less than one year”
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Buterin concludes a slowdown in compute hyper-scaling seems quite net good.
“a slowdown in compute hyper-scaling seems quite net good”
Vitalik Buterin
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