Hot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence”

Here’s the Accord, which Trump apparently described as a “tremendous” exercise in “self-policing”:

Reading the Accord between the lines

1. We agree not be regulated
2. We agree not to give the public a voice
3. Trust us

Also, what does the word “independent” really mean above? Subcontractors working for other companies that we (the big companies who signed) choose and hang out with and perhaps already do business with?

Finally, if I may ask, what happened to the Pacing everybody was talking about two weeks ago?

Surprise, surprise: Dario, Sam, and Elon all chickened out.