The pause will only accelerate economic impacts

A Reddit user suggests that a pause in the race to Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) or Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) would accelerate economic impacts. They argue that even without ASI, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is sufficient to replace 99% of jobs. Furthermore, a pause would redirect top engineers from ASI research to productizing existing models, potentially speeding up job displacement.

This post uniquely argues that a pause in AI development, unlike its intended effect, would accelerate job displacement by redirecting top engineers to productize existing AGI models.