“If you take the Epoch AI scaling curve seriously, which I think we should, these models are going to get so expensive that it gets to a point where there's only kind of one or two states that can continue to maintain a sovereign frontier. … What I think is a really obvious idea is that you will not soon be able to buy the best models, that labs will become something much closer to the defense industrial complex, that they will have models that are available to nation states for national security purposes. You will not be using them.”

Yeah, I mean, I think we need to move past bottlenecks and start to think about who is uniquely advantaged as a result of this technology, right? It is staggering to me, permanently. It's staggering to me that you can use instinct every day at work and not process that millions of people's jobs are within the capabilities cone of the models we have today. And if you take the epoch AI scaling curve seriously, which I think we should, these models are going to get so expensive that it gets to a point where there's only kind of one or two states that can continue to maintain a sovereign frontier, meaning models that are kind of world-class and can continue to be trained. So if we have a world where the best models are, you know, held inside of American skiffs, where the national security community is given, you know, Fable 5.5, right? Maybe some unreleased TPPN episodes, really kind of high-security stuff, and the Chinese are able to maintain their own sovereign frontier in the East, then what does this mean for the populations that are within the diffusion net? And we introduced a couple new ideas as part of this PDF. The sovereign frontier is the big one. What I think is a really obvious idea that you will not soon be able to buy the best models, that labs will become something much closer to the defense industrial…