David Sacks: go ahead and pace, you are the frontier, but stop pretending you need evaluators to police rivals who are not even at the frontier.
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Critics name the proposal an alignment aristocracy and a safety cartel
Claim
The attempted coordination provoked a rapid backlash armed with new terms: an alignment aristocracy is what you get when no one can be trusted with this quietly becomes no one but us, and a safety cartel is what you call dominant firms invoking safety to set the speed limit for everyone else.
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