In a public debate with e/acc representative Beff Jezos, Vitalik stated that he was not against AGI, but simply felt that eight years was safer than four.

Those paths that truly involve humanity, those paths that respect the circumstances of every individual, cannot be accelerated at scale; you cannot compress them with computing power.

The reality is that in the same city, one building is constructing a silicon-based deity, while several other buildings are surrounded by tents and homeless people—this is a uniquely American example of "extremely unbalanced acceleration."

A four-year delay is worthwhile. A four-hundred-year delay is absolutely unacceptable.

But do we really have the ability to choose to "take eight years"?