There is a failure mode in advocating for more time to prepare for superintelligence to figure out all the unknowns. 

The path to superintelligence is both solved and unsolved: the high-level picture is clear and a function of time, compute, data, and capital on varying orders of magnitude. And the lower-levels of research are challenging and unknown but still largely a function of scaling laws, math, and hardware. 

We know what to do even we don’t yet know exactly how it’s going to happen. We just know it will. So waiting for more alignment is not a rational strategy. The rational strategy is to act with existential urgency. 

H/T to @theshivpat