This was my original comment:

  > What on earth are you talking about?

  > 1. What does any of this have to do with "A(G)I"? Nobody has any clue what AI even is let alone how to build one. We're talking about language models here.

  > 2. What's the winner-takes-all thing about? Why can't you have multiple independently developed AIs?

  > 3. What's with all the "safety" stuff? Why is it important? They're just computer programs...

> when the chief scientist of a company that just released six month old software that can use Kicad on your computer to design a circuit board and have it created and shipped to you tells you he thinks we will get to automatically self reinforcing improvements, I think it’s wise to take him seriously. It was only eighteen months before Astra was created that LLMs could not count rs in strawberry.

Sorry if I'm a little slow here, a few questions:

1. What's Astra?

2. Who is this chief scientist? Which company?